Poor

BBC News often tells you when it thinks a story is important by sending a major presenter to the scene, to preside over the top of a 10pm bulletin. Personally, I don't like it, but if you are going to be consistent, it's really odd that BBC News hasn't 'turned up' at Whaley Bridge before the Prime Minister.

Indeed, many of the tools of story telling normally used by BBC News have been missing from the coverage, in a way I'm sure they would have been if the reservoirs in Stoke Newington had started cracking.

Where's the graphic showing how the dam is constructed behind the broken concrete plates on the spillway ? Where's the archive showing that the dam was built to sort out not water supplies but the canal system ?  Where's the analysis of extreme rain events that might make us think about how we manage really big reservoirs ?  Where's the analysis of how we've increasingly built over land that used to help us absorb rainfall, meaning water is being re-routed in ways that we can't control ?  Come ON, Kamal.