:00:09. > :00:19.That's the business for now. Now, it is time for NewsWatch, with
:00:19. > :00:24.Samira Ahmed. Welcome to the programme. Some breaking news from
:00:24. > :00:31.Southwark Crown Court... Hang on a minute, I was watching that!
:00:31. > :00:38.Interrupting that press conference there, but should things be
:00:38. > :00:42.interrupted like that? Shouldn't the word marriage be spelt
:00:42. > :00:47.correctly? And what about Stafford hospital - is anything actually
:00:47. > :00:51.happening there? First, it may have been a few hundred years in the
:00:51. > :00:56.making, but for many people, the hot news on Monday morning was the
:00:56. > :01:01.revelation that a Skrtel at -- that a skeleton found under a car park
:01:01. > :01:05.had been at that of Richard III. The announcement was made in a
:01:05. > :01:14.press conference given by experts from the University of Leicester,
:01:14. > :01:18.broadcast live on the BBC News Channel. In contrast with things
:01:18. > :01:25.found on other sites, it was very irregular in shape. There was no
:01:25. > :01:30.evidence of a coffin, in the form of impressions or nails, nor was
:01:30. > :01:33.there any evidence of a shroud. Let's leave that press conference,
:01:33. > :01:37.for some breaking news from Southwark Crown Court - Chris Huhne
:01:37. > :01:42.has just pleaded guilty to perverting the course of justice
:01:42. > :01:50.over claims that his ex-wife took speeding points for him a decade
:01:50. > :01:54.ago. After that interruption, lasting six minutes, the News
:01:54. > :01:58.Channel did return to the press conference in Leicester, only to
:01:58. > :02:02.break into it again seven minutes later to reiterate the news about
:02:02. > :02:07.Chris Huhne, before cutting back in again for the rest of the news
:02:07. > :02:13.conference. It left those hooked on the Richard III announcement very
:02:13. > :02:23.frustrated. This programme has been told that nobody was available
:02:23. > :02:46.
:02:46. > :02:51.tonight, but we were given this Two viewers who were watching on
:02:51. > :02:56.Monday morning join me now. First of all, Ian Finnigan, what was your
:02:56. > :03:01.experience of watching that news conference? Very frustrating. I
:03:01. > :03:07.think this is one of the biggest historical stories of my lifetime,
:03:07. > :03:14.comparable perhaps with the raising of the Mary rose. We were eager to
:03:14. > :03:21.be informed as to how the scientists had arrived at their
:03:21. > :03:24.conclusions, and we felt that it was a very, very interesting
:03:24. > :03:29.presentation that there were putting forward. And suddenly, we
:03:29. > :03:35.were interrupted for a news story which, to be quite frank, we felt
:03:35. > :03:44.was of not particular importance. It was a story about a backbench MP
:03:44. > :03:48.who had changed his plea. We were interested in a story about someone
:03:48. > :03:55.who wore the imperial crown in England, who has been at the
:03:55. > :03:59.forefront of No, education for 500 years. Let me bring Christine in.
:03:59. > :04:02.News management say it is hard to make a decision, when you have got
:04:02. > :04:08.two breaking stories. Chris Huhne led for the rest of the day, and
:04:08. > :04:12.that was their call... Well, I think it was the wrong call. It
:04:12. > :04:18.showed a lack of respect for the hundreds of people involved in his
:04:18. > :04:23.huge historical event. In my lifetime, I do not think there will
:04:23. > :04:28.be such an exciting event as this. I felt very move to be part of it
:04:28. > :04:31.because it was a live broadcast, and it was completely destroyed
:04:31. > :04:36.every time you interrupted it with what Ian Finnigan has described
:04:36. > :04:43.quite rightly as historically, an insignificant political moment,
:04:43. > :04:47.which will be forgotten next week. Obviously, it was felt that the
:04:47. > :04:53.Chris Huhne story was important, and some people would argue it was
:04:53. > :04:58.the biggest story of the day, but you do not think so? Of course not.
:04:58. > :05:03.It was a political moment, but I have very little importance in the
:05:04. > :05:09.long term. This man will be forgotten in not too great a
:05:09. > :05:13.distance, whereas Richard III is part of this country's story. It
:05:13. > :05:21.was just very, very bad judgment to interrupt what was such an exciting
:05:21. > :05:28.moment. Ian Finnigan, was it a case of the BBC being too Westminster
:05:28. > :05:32.based? That is a view that I hold. When push comes to shove, Chris
:05:32. > :05:39.Huhne will be a footnote in some historical document in the future,
:05:39. > :05:44.whereas we are talking about a man who was the king of England for a
:05:44. > :05:48.short time. A very controversial but nonetheless interesting figure.
:05:48. > :05:56.What about how things could have been done better? What would have
:05:56. > :06:00.been satisfactory for you? It is a breaking news channel, after all.
:06:00. > :06:06.They could have just had that as rolling news along the bottom of
:06:06. > :06:10.the screen for political addicts. It was not necessary to break up
:06:10. > :06:15.that very important live broadcast. It was not going to go on for three
:06:15. > :06:25.hours. It was just and necessary at that point to interrupt the
:06:25. > :06:29.
:06:29. > :06:35.broadcast. It was showing a lack of Do let us know your thoughts on
:06:35. > :06:39.that or on any other aspect of BBC News. Now, for some of your other
:06:39. > :06:42.concerns this week. The question of whether same-sex couples should be
:06:42. > :06:46.allowed to marry has been a political hot potato, and it has
:06:46. > :06:50.proved a tricky subject this week for the BBC. David Cameron is
:06:50. > :06:53.facing a further challenge... Before Monday's vote in the House
:06:53. > :06:57.of Commons, the topic had had a considerable airing, so you might
:06:57. > :07:02.have thought that Sunday's early- evening news would have been
:07:02. > :07:12.prepared. But that is not how you spell marriage, is it? Mike Ahearne
:07:12. > :07:26.
:07:26. > :07:36.was astonished to see it spelt But it was the other part of the
:07:36. > :07:56.
:07:56. > :08:01.phrase gay marriage which annoyed The publication of a damning report
:08:02. > :08:06.on failings at Stafford hospital was also reported widely this week.
:08:06. > :08:09.And that meant health correspondent Dominic Hughes spending some time
:08:09. > :08:15.on their standing outside the hospital, giving rise to a
:08:15. > :08:25.complaint of a kind familiar to our viewers, articulated here by Dr
:08:25. > :08:38.
:08:38. > :08:48.Some viewers have been in touch with us with a query which is
:08:48. > :08:53.
:08:53. > :09:03.We have been trying to find out the answer to that question, and have
:09:03. > :09:27.
:09:27. > :09:32.been given this statement by BBC Finally, one of the journalists
:09:32. > :09:37.cover the use of English, sloppy language or Grammar, their own
:09:37. > :09:42.usage is bound to come under scrutiny. So, Danny Savage was in
:09:42. > :09:49.dangerous waters when he reported on slang and local dialect phrase
:09:49. > :09:54.is being used in schools. spoken word is on the agenda here,
:09:54. > :09:58.too. A letter has been sent home with A-lister phrases teachers do
:09:58. > :10:08.not want to hear any more, along with the correct way of
:10:08. > :10:11.
:10:11. > :10:21.articulating the thought. Here is a few of them... JRL Taylor thought
:10:21. > :10:30.