:00:25. > :00:30.smooth. Welcome to news watch. Coming up:
:00:30. > :00:36.The website story that appeared before the events described. The
:00:36. > :00:42.allegations of political bias made by the Mayor of London and, his BBC
:00:42. > :00:46.News obsessed by murder? It was the most thrilling Day in the history
:00:46. > :00:53.of club football. Manchester City snatched the Premiership title from
:00:53. > :00:58.local rivals when things seemed lost. Queens Park Rangers a Roy --
:00:58. > :01:08.avoided relegation is. Chances I knew were not a big fan of the
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:01:18. > :01:23.beautiful game. -- chances are you More complaints on Monday when a
:01:23. > :01:33.victory parade in Manchester were shown on the news 10 of for two
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:02:10. > :02:20.At least with the Premiership over, we will be put Palfrey and to the
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:02:22. > :02:26.end of summer, when tweet? -- football free. Euro 2012 is
:02:26. > :02:34.happening. It looks like there will be plenty more succour to come over
:02:34. > :02:39.the next few weeks. -- football. I am joined from Salford by the head
:02:39. > :02:43.of sports news. I confess I was actually at the game on Sunday
:02:43. > :02:47.between Queens Park Rangers and Manchester City. For those of us
:02:47. > :02:53.there, it was very exciting. What you say to the millions of viewers
:02:53. > :02:58.who hate the poor have no interest in it whatsoever? We understand not
:02:58. > :03:04.all the audience are sports fans or football fans. This was certainly
:03:04. > :03:09.an event in football that almost transcended sport, for a number of
:03:09. > :03:14.reasons. The last-minute nature of the win by Manchester City and the
:03:14. > :03:20.fact it was against their nearest rivals, Manchester United. They had
:03:20. > :03:27.not won the title in 44 years. They are owned by very wealthy owners
:03:27. > :03:34.from Aberdovey. It made this, in our opinion, a very good story. --
:03:34. > :03:40.Abu Dhabi. A number of viewers say, we do not object you covering such
:03:40. > :03:44.immense in the news bulletins but that you over did it. -- such
:03:45. > :03:50.events. It should not lead the news. It should not be the priority you
:03:50. > :03:55.are saying. We are continuing to cover those very serious issues.
:03:55. > :04:02.Sport is an important part of the fabric of British society. Many
:04:02. > :04:09.millions of people spend many of -- bonnet and blood and enjoy it. I
:04:09. > :04:15.would Uggi the celebration scenes - the parade - it was great to see so
:04:16. > :04:22.many people happy and elated. News should not always be sad. It should
:04:22. > :04:29.be about reflecting the culture of the nation. Were you write to show
:04:29. > :04:34.more than two hours life of the victory celebrations? It was a big
:04:34. > :04:39.event. -- A Life In Art. Audiences of the News Channel enjoyed
:04:39. > :04:42.watching big events. We do not judge ourselves entirely by the
:04:42. > :04:47.newspapers. There were pictures all over the front pages, as well as
:04:47. > :04:51.the back pages, of the Manchester City parade. Don't you think that
:04:51. > :04:54.sport should stay in the sports section of the news, rather than
:04:54. > :05:01.overriding the potential collapse of the euro and stories like that?
:05:01. > :05:06.If it does largely. I work in Sport and we understand our place in the
:05:06. > :05:10.general scheme of things. There are more important issues than sport.
:05:10. > :05:16.Equally, it is something that excites the nation - part of the
:05:16. > :05:26.nation - a large part of the nation. People enjoy it and are passionate
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:05:29. > :05:37.about it. A number of complaints on a different topic. The new set in
:05:37. > :05:47.Salford distracting moving images and some people find it too dark.
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:05:50. > :05:55.Do you have the setting right? We are pleased with the new set? It is
:05:55. > :06:02.very modern. We take on board the feedback we get from listeners.
:06:03. > :06:11.When you change sex, they will not be to everybody's taste. -- sets.
:06:12. > :06:16.We're very proud of the new set. One sort of information -- source
:06:16. > :06:26.of information about the Manchester City celebrations was the BBC News
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:06:26. > :07:09.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 42 seconds
:07:09. > :07:14.We are told a version of the story had been prepared to run at 6:00pm
:07:14. > :07:21.and was made live by someone who was put in a picture in the page.
:07:21. > :07:27.Also provoking reaction among news watch the years was a story on the
:07:27. > :07:31.Saturday Breakfast programme. Suspicion of murder after a house
:07:31. > :07:34.fire kills five children. Jennifer Hudson has burnt prosecutors after
:07:34. > :07:41.her former brother-in-law was convicted of murdering three
:07:41. > :07:50.members of her family. Police have charged a woman with murdering her
:07:50. > :07:57.son and daughter. I have just been watching Dean news this morning.
:07:57. > :08:02.The two leading items are stories about murder. We have the third one
:08:02. > :08:08.about murder from the United States. Why have BBC staff spent so much
:08:09. > :08:14.time bomb murder? The most high- profile complaint about BBC News
:08:14. > :08:20.came from Boris Johnson. -- on murder. During the mayoral campaign,
:08:20. > :08:26.he wrote in the Daily Telegraph on Monday, he sometimes felt his chief
:08:26. > :08:31.opponent was BBC News. He described the prevailing view as status,
:08:31. > :08:39.called gritters, defeatist, and to business, Europhile and
:08:39. > :08:45.overwhelmingly biased to the rest - - the left. He added, we need a
:08:45. > :08:55.Tory, and no mucking about. Typically colourful abuse? Several
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:09:18. > :09:28.viewers express their agreement was On Tuesday, the director of news
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:09:54. > :09:59.On Wednesday, the BBC Trust announced its conclusions on the
:09:59. > :10:05.plans of the corporation to save money. It was a strategy known as
:10:05. > :10:10.Delivering Quality First. Some planned cuts, such as those to
:10:10. > :10:17.local radio and Inside Out, are to be scaled back. The mid-morning and
:10:17. > :10:27.3pm news summaries barb to disappear. That will be no great
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:10:32. > :10:38.Finally, most parts of the UK have seen more rain this week. That may