What a day it has been news wise. Firstly, during the day I was glued to the rolling news channels as they brought coverage of the G20 protests in London. Two thoughts ran through my head while I watched.
It must have been great being a burglar in London today. All the police seemed to be in the city centre. And why were they targeting the RBS? As a tax payer they own that building. Saying that, they probably don’t pay tax as they clearly didn’t have jobs to go to.
Watching the #G20 hashtag on Twitter provided excellent commentary while I watched the TV.
And then on my walk to work at around 2 o’clock, Twitter once again proved to be an invaluable tool for news coverage, breaking the story of a helicopter crashing in the North Sea a while before anyone else had it.
It didn’t take long for this story to over shadow my G20 watching.
It took a few hours for it to be confirmed that there had been at least 8 casualties (still the confirmed number at the time of writing) but by the time 7 o’clock came I was handling on air a massive tragedy to hit the North East.
Fingers crossed tomorrow is a little more peaceful.
