Setting up camp
It’s a pretty quiet period for news at the moment - fairly normal for August though - and sometimes it can be a bit of a struggle to find enough stories from around the UK.
Earlier this week our interest was sparked by the news that a group of c was setting up camp near Heathrow airport. Two thousand people are expected at the Camp for Climate Action by the weekend and there's the promise of "mass direct action" on Sunday.
It certainly sounds like a story we should be keeping an eye on so we sent a team down there on Monday to take a closer look.
The problem with a story like this is we need to get our team in place just in case something happens, and once they're there we can't leave in case we can't get back in! So, we've now got a satellite truck parked up in a field next to the camp, and will keep it, and the team, there until at least Sunday.
However, so far, not a lot has happened. People are still arriving and although there've been a couple of protests (one at Heathrow and another at Biggin Hill airport) they've been relatively low-key. While our team sit and wait down at the camp, back at base we're trying to make sure that we don't over-report the story just because we've invested in it or just because there's so little else happening in these long, quiet summer days.
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I hope both sides of this story are covered, although I strongly doubt it.
How about a piece on who this land belongs to, and how they feel about a bunch of protestors illegally camping out on it (you included).
Why the stupid lead strory on the imternet site you tube...who cares???
I live in london and I want news about issues where I live not this silly stuff.,,its all rubbish nonscience.
please work harder to come up with real stories or just bin local news and give up!!!
Any chance of letting us (the paying public) know where else ´óÏó´«Ã½ teams are parked up "on holiday" in case anything interesting happens?
Do you really think that the protestors won't wait till the media gets there before starting their "direct action"?
btw Of course you'll over-report the story, it's in London and it supports the ´óÏó´«Ã½'s Man-Made Global Warming agenda.
No, as a journalist involved in this story I can tell you the protestors do not wait for the media before beginning their protest.
They get where they need to be, then ring us, usually through intermediaries.
Having a minimum team at the camp is an entirely reasonable thing to do, given the stated threat of direct action.
And by the way, being parked up in a field in the pouring rain is not exactly a holiday.
How about a piece on who this land belongs too, and how they feel about a bunch of protestors illegally camping on it (you included).
I was under the impression that the landowner was not complaining about the protestors as this debate affects them too - indeed more than the protest groups as their land will be severely affected by the expansion of the airport...
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