Only 5 days late...

Earlier this year, we reported how the BBC was a whole week late reporting on the "scandal" of the road markings at Chester's newly revamped railway station.

Aunty has done it again, albeit slightly quicker this time. Today's groundbreaking news on the BBC website concerns the collapse of the ancient city Walls. This event happened on the afternoon of Thursday 3 April and was duly reported in the weekly Chester Chronicle the very next day. The council put out its own press release yesterday and today's free edition Midweek Chronicle has a further update on the state of the Walls.

Interestingly, the BBC report acknowledges that the collapse happened last week, so why has it taken 5 days to publish the story?

While in London last week, recording the Newswatch debate with BBC head of local and regional programming, Tamsin O'Brien, I learned (to my complete astonishment) that the BBC does have a Chester correspondent based in the city. Her name is Kate Simms. Which rather begs the question of what exactly she is doing to earn her salary - a salary paid for by Cheshire licence payers. If she was filing news this late on a newspaper, she could expect to be fired. Yet because she reports for the BBC, we continue to get a shoddy service of either late news or no news. Once again, Cheshire licence payers are bottom of the heap when it comes to supplying an up-to-date news service.