For critics cheesed off over the years at BBC News' house-style of live intros and final pontifications to perfectly comprehensive recorded items from tv reporters 'at the scene', it seems, finally, Tier 4 may have done for it.
Newsgathering editors are, I'm told, instructing UK teams in the field to get in and get out, with the minimum time spent doing location 'lives'. You can also look forward to reporters talking to you with the clear masks previously favoured by bar staff and hairdressers.
All this came too late for hapless Simon Jones at Dover, live for most of the day at the ferry terminal, when the story was along the M20. If the BBC had done some simple counting of its own, it could have challenged the Government's 170 claim much earlier.
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