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18/05/2012

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smooth. Welcome to news watch. Coming up:

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The website story that appeared before the events described. The

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allegations of political bias made by the Mayor of London and, his BBC

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News obsessed by murder? It was the most thrilling Day in the history

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of club football. Manchester City snatched the Premiership title from

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local rivals when things seemed lost. Queens Park Rangers a Roy --

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avoided relegation is. Chances I knew were not a big fan of the

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beautiful game. -- chances are you More complaints on Monday when a

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victory parade in Manchester were shown on the news 10 of for two

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At least with the Premiership over, we will be put Palfrey and to the

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end of summer, when tweet? -- football free. Euro 2012 is

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happening. It looks like there will be plenty more succour to come over

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the next few weeks. -- football. I am joined from Salford by the head

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of sports news. I confess I was actually at the game on Sunday

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between Queens Park Rangers and Manchester City. For those of us

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there, it was very exciting. What you say to the millions of viewers

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who hate the poor have no interest in it whatsoever? We understand not

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all the audience are sports fans or football fans. This was certainly

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an event in football that almost transcended sport, for a number of

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reasons. The last-minute nature of the win by Manchester City and the

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fact it was against their nearest rivals, Manchester United. They had

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not won the title in 44 years. They are owned by very wealthy owners

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from Aberdovey. It made this, in our opinion, a very good story. --

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Abu Dhabi. A number of viewers say, we do not object you covering such

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immense in the news bulletins but that you over did it. -- such

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events. It should not lead the news. It should not be the priority you

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are saying. We are continuing to cover those very serious issues.

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Sport is an important part of the fabric of British society. Many

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millions of people spend many of -- bonnet and blood and enjoy it. I

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would Uggi the celebration scenes - the parade - it was great to see so

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many people happy and elated. News should not always be sad. It should

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be about reflecting the culture of the nation. Were you write to show

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more than two hours life of the victory celebrations? It was a big

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event. -- A Life In Art. Audiences of the News Channel enjoyed

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watching big events. We do not judge ourselves entirely by the

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newspapers. There were pictures all over the front pages, as well as

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the back pages, of the Manchester City parade. Don't you think that

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sport should stay in the sports section of the news, rather than

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overriding the potential collapse of the euro and stories like that?

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If it does largely. I work in Sport and we understand our place in the

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general scheme of things. There are more important issues than sport.

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Equally, it is something that excites the nation - part of the

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nation - a large part of the nation. People enjoy it and are passionate

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about it. A number of complaints on a different topic. The new set in

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Salford distracting moving images and some people find it too dark.

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Do you have the setting right? We are pleased with the new set? It is

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very modern. We take on board the feedback we get from listeners.

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When you change sex, they will not be to everybody's taste. -- sets.

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We're very proud of the new set. One sort of information -- source

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of information about the Manchester City celebrations was the BBC News

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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 42 seconds

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We are told a version of the story had been prepared to run at 6:00pm

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and was made live by someone who was put in a picture in the page.

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Also provoking reaction among news watch the years was a story on the

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Saturday Breakfast programme. Suspicion of murder after a house

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fire kills five children. Jennifer Hudson has burnt prosecutors after

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her former brother-in-law was convicted of murdering three

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members of her family. Police have charged a woman with murdering her

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son and daughter. I have just been watching Dean news this morning.

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The two leading items are stories about murder. We have the third one

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about murder from the United States. Why have BBC staff spent so much

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time bomb murder? The most high- profile complaint about BBC News

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came from Boris Johnson. -- on murder. During the mayoral campaign,

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he wrote in the Daily Telegraph on Monday, he sometimes felt his chief

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opponent was BBC News. He described the prevailing view as status,

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called gritters, defeatist, and to business, Europhile and

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overwhelmingly biased to the rest - - the left. He added, we need a

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Tory, and no mucking about. Typically colourful abuse? Several

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viewers express their agreement was On Tuesday, the director of news

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On Wednesday, the BBC Trust announced its conclusions on the

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plans of the corporation to save money. It was a strategy known as

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Delivering Quality First. Some planned cuts, such as those to

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local radio and Inside Out, are to be scaled back. The mid-morning and

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3pm news summaries barb to disappear. That will be no great

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Finally, most parts of the UK have seen more rain this week. That may

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