Bbc News At Ten

[Baldric]

Re todays terrorist activity

"The sound of gunfire replacing the sound of the Bells of Big Ben"

Where do they get these people fgs?

[jno]

maybe it's true? Big Ben was to stop chiming this year as it undergoes maintenance. No idea if this has started.

[Baldric]

///the Bells of Big Ben/// ??

jno, apply for a job at the Beeb, you'll do well.

[jno]

oh yes, I was forgetting, terror attacks are the perfect time for pedantry.

[Togo]

Perhaps I should get round to the BBC sounds effects dept. and flog em some recording equipment or tapes of Big Ben chiming.

[Baldric]

Director General material by the look of it.
;o)

[Peter Pedant]

yeah i didnt like

panic and fear ran thro the palace of westminster ....

[anneasquith]

Change channels, ?

[Baldric]

What has that got to do with the OP Peter?

[jourdain2]

TV showed them all sitting pretty calmly in their seats.

[Hopkirk]

Bells of Big Ben?

There's only one bell - and it is called Big Ben.

[Baldric]

Well spotted Hopkirk ;o)

[Togo]

Don't tell me that was a bell end. (^_*)

[Peter Pedant]

"The sound of gunfire replacing the sound of the Bells of Big Ben" OP
" panic and fear ran thro the palace of westminster ...." PP

What has that got to do with the OP Peter?

both examples overblown reporting composed by hacks
anxious to make a name for themselves and sell papers

[shoota]

We were repeatedly told that the suspect had been shot by armed Police.

Well he wouldn't have been shot by unarmed Police would he?

[anneasquith]

Quite right shoota, but I didn't note that until you mentioned it .