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Attend him, will have a full round-up of the day's news. First,

News watch. Coming up, he's about to be

re-elected as Labour leader if the But has Jeremy Corbyn been

given a fair hearing by And just how important

is the separation of Angelina Jolie Last week, we add the charge that

BBC News had over its reporting of the departure

of the Great British This week, more cake

related complaints. Breaking news, we have

a statement from Channel 4 confirming that Paul

Hollywood has signed a deal to go to bake off

on Well, that hot on the heels

of the news that Mary Berry is She is staying at the BBC and won't

be following the show to Channel 4. As we have just heard on the last

few seconds, Paul Hollywood has signed a deal to go

with the show to Channel 4. The excitement was not shared

by everyone, with scores of responding along the lines

of Steve Gilbert from Chelmsford. And that wasn't the first bit

of breaking news this week Now, the breaking news

is that Hollywood's most famous celebrity couple,

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are to A lawyer for Angelina Jolie has said

that she has initiated the This is coming initially

from the showbiz website in Los Angeles, TMZ, which said that she

has filed divorce papers yesterday, Nicola Vaughan from Cheltenham

called with her thoughts on the I've been tuned in to BBC

News Channel today. I was a little disgruntled

that Tim Farron's speech was interrupted

move swiftly and live to Barack Obama, but could understand it.

I could also understand why the focus

on the ceasefire in Syria deserved to be so prominent on the news feed.

I really, really cannot understand why breaking news that Angelina

Jolie and Brad Pitt are getting divorced seems to supersede all

I thought I was watching a news channel, not celebrity divorce

When Jeremy Corbyn was first elected Labour leader just

over a year ago, there was much discussion about whether he would be

Less confrontational at Prime Minister's Questions, for example.

And perhaps requiring a new approach from news

But since then, many of his supporters have criticised they feel

has been consistently hostile bias against him by BBC News.

We'll be discussing this in a moment, but

first he a clip from Wednesday's News at 1pm,

when Norman Smith was discussing the personal focus of the

There aren't really there aren't really

those huge policy differences between Mr Corbyn and Mr Smith.

They're roughly on the same political page

It's been about personality and Mr Smith's

conviction that he is better equipped to lead the party, manage

Today he got some surprising support from Mr

Corbyn's first wife, who said she had been voting for him

because you thought Jeremy Corbyn not really up

to it and actually haven't changed any of his views since the 1970s.

That damning verdict, it is alleged, has

been heard too often on the

Rich Chamberlain objected to its being repeated

from that particular source.

More accusations of bias followed Monday's panorama, which

asked the question, Labour, is the party over?

We've been on the front line of Labour's civil war.

The battle for the soul of the Labour

Party is going to be fought out on the streets

I think we are standing absolutely at

And it might well be that one or other of the

factions, or both of us, and up going over it.

There has been abuse, bullying, threats.

Diane Randall was one of a number of viewers to contact us about that

Well, we asked BBC News for someone to come and

discusses on the programme, but no one was available.

Instead, they gave us this statement.

Well, we are joined now by one of the viewers who

contacted us this week, Kevin Foley in our Nottingham studio.

We should say, your supporter of Jeremy Corbyn

What is your concern about the coverage?

I think in line with some of the

e-mails there and your introduction, I think it's been very frustrating

that there hasn't been as much coverage of his policies, which are

And the emphasis has been on a very personal level, and

I noted a while back that Nick Robinson, the BBC man,

said he was shocked at the treatment Mr Corbyn had hard.

And you have other concerns about the tone of

coverage, and also the kinds of voices commenting on him?

I mean, it's almost as if the mood changes,

It's Doctor Who time for Corbyn supporters.

There often seems to be twice as many people detracting from

And the presenters can introduce an element of incredulity when it

comes to treating anything Jeremy Corbyn says.

So doesn't come across as evenhanded, it comes across

I want to mention a particular example of something that

When the Shadow Cabinet, you know, resigned,

That was really happening, there was a real issue

Journalists would say that the heart of what they are trying to cover.

Yeah, there is a feeling and we don't know how valid this is,

that there was some corporation between the BBC News team and the

I take your point, but these things happen and

they are happening in the public domain.

You aren't saying journalists shouldn't cover them, are you?

But there is far too much emphasis on personality, and

people really would like to get through to the policies.

Because as I say, his policies are often, when

people asked anonymously whether they support

And then they're presenting a picture of Jeremy and because he's

been turned into a pantomime villain, to some extent by the BBC

News as we would say, than they recoil in

When Jeremy Corbyn comes to an interview and is asked, would

Journalists would say that story and politicians, mostly know they

have to think that what they say might be interpreted in ways they

Is that the issue, that he doesn't approach interviews,

perhaps, the way a lot of other politicians to?

He doesn't play the game in the same way that other people play the game.

But people are largely very sick and tired of politicians

I think they'd much rather somebody tells us that they are 7.5

out of ten for Europe, rather than someone

who pretends that they are

Assuming Jeremy Corbyn is re-elected as Labour

leader this weekend, how would you want

reset the button in a way, if it could,

Whoever is writing the scripts, I think they've

got to try and be more careful with their language they use.

But in general, I think the biggest thing is to get

If people don't want to vote for him because they

don't like his policies, that's fine.

But I think it's undermining democracy if people

don't get opportunity to find out what those policies are.

Now, we occasionally hear complaints are

totally get distracted from what news

presenters are saying by the

A couple of years ago, we featured the horror of

the fly that appeared on the camera lens during the broadcast of

Reporting Scotland and was then captured by a spider.

It appears they have a problem with wildlife in

that studio in Glasgow because on Monday morning, on the same

programme, the creepy crawlers got hot again.

That's all for now, I'll be back with another update.

This time, it was a wasp magnified by the camera and stealing the show

Twitter was abuzz with rumours of a giant insect

attack, with one person suggesting...

Another BBC presenter, John Beattie, claimed...

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