Jacko, I sent an email to the BBC and I didn’t send one to the MOD press office.
I didn’t send one to the press office because, as I understand it, they were complying with the long standing principal of no details until NOK have been informed.
The BBC (and other UK news outlets) calling UDI due to the fact that ‘the Americans do it differently’ doesn’t wash with me.
Would you rather that MOD had, 1 hour in, announced that it was a MR2 just ‘cause the US do it that way’ and have 50 ish sets of loved ones in Moray waiting for the knock at the door from Officers in No1s.
As it stands, the ‘Nations Flag Ship News Service’ had god knows how many people at Odiham worried out of there minds for no good reason apart from being first and dam the accuracy! Such is the demand to feed the god of 24 hour ‘perma-news’. I expect better from the BBC.
