Debut

The first 'phased' appearance of output from the new BBC News channel, "Proudly British, Uniquely Global", started at 0900, with four headlines: Battle for Bakhmut, Russian blogger killed, Finland's tight race election [sic], and Dover Delays. At 0904, BBC political correspondent Nick Eardley posted a 26 word tweet, saying members of the National Education Union had voted to reject a pay offer - 98% of those who voted. At 0908, BBC News Online reported, in 69 words, that this mean one-day strikes on Thursday 27 April and Tuesday 2 May, but that the union said exams would not be disrupted. 

At 0914, the BBC News Channel carried a presenter line of 'breaking news' over library pictures, saying the pay offer had been rejected, but with no line on the scale of the vote; and that strikes would go ahead 'at the end of April and the beginning of May'. 'We'll be talking to our correspondent later'. 

The NEU has members in 23,400 schools. 

The News channel carried a look-back at Dover disruption at 0923. At 0930, the teachers made it to fourth headline, and Education Editor Branwen Jeffreys was live from the union's conference in Harrogate.