To think that there was such poor BBC coverage of the Queensferry Crossing opening.

[Cailleach666]

Hardly mentioned on TV, only on local news.
This is a major structure, costing £1.2 billion pounds. the queen opened it this morning, it is the longest bridge of its construction type in the world.
I can't help feeling that if it had been constructed in the SE of England there would have been a little more media attention.

They should report in a few weeks time on whether it sorts our the bloody queues in the morning.

I've read several articles on the BBC news website in the last week about its engineering, history etc and there was a decent item on the 6 o clock news, DS was delighted by the red arrows. We're in London.

I'm in London and saw coverage about it - last week I think.

So no, not the tape cutting ceremony. But yes about the bridge itself (including it being open to pedestrians in the run up to formal date for vehicle traffic)

I live about a mile away from Holyrood and a couple of low flying helicopters passed over on Sunday afternoon, must have been her maj.

You weren't watching the same news as me then as there was a lengthy piece on the BBC lunchtime news with the Queen speaking, and then on the Scottish news they interviewed Nippy about it too.

But really, in comparison with Brexit, Trump and North Korea, a new bridge in Scotland is irrelevant.

It's very shocking how little Scottish news is reported on the main national news. Not only is the national news London centric, its English news in the main. I regularly move between both countries and it's staggering. The Queensferry crossing got less coverage than bank holiday queues on the M1 (a regular and predictable event)

There was a piece on it on the Today programme - a national radio news programme. I heard nothing about M1 queues unless you mean when 8 people were killed in a minibus - and two lorry drivers were arrested. That is very newsworthy.

However, I agree that generally the news is fairly England-centric on the national BBC. They are always reporting on "the NHS in England" and I often wonder if there are no stories of interest about the NHS in Wales, NI or Scotland! Sames goes for education.

Cross-posted with miaow on the M1 minibus accident!

I watched the live coverage of it being opened on the BBC yesterday. So programmes were literally cancelled so it could be marvelled at bizarrely

I'm sick of seeing news features about that bloody bridge, they've been going on for weeks. We do have infrastructure projects in places other than London and Edinburgh. You won't have heard about them though.

It's not really been one opening, it's been four. They opened it for first time to traffic last week - piece on BBC news. Then they closed it again, and opened it for a walk at the weekend - more coverage. Then the Queen did the ribbon cutting yesterday. And it will finally open AGAIN on Thursday.

I definitely saw it on the news but didn't take much notice. We are in the SE. I should have paid attention as DS has a thing about bridges (which is opposite to the thing I have about bridges - they are bloody terrifying!)

When I'm up in Scotland and read the newspapers there you'd never know Scotland was part of the UK. My parents get three daily papers: the Glasgow Herald, the Record and the Mail. There's very little national news covered. I actually think many Scottish people live in their own little bubble.

Poster Tapandgo certainly seems in a bubble of some sort..

Don't get me wrong I love bridges and tunnels and even Crossrail coverage.

Nationalistic prisms get my goat though.

The snake in the toilet got in via the U bend. It's got me thinking..

What more do you want? TV programmes cancelled to marvel over the wonder of it

Doesn't matter, even that wouldn't be enough to stop grievance hunters. Their view of reality is distorted.

As I feel with the DC sometimes, if they're never going to be satisfied whatever you do, there is no point in making a special effort to keep them happy! Carry on in a reasonable fashion and leave them to spend their lives complaining about Scotland being victimised.

Sad!

When I'm up in Scotland and read the newspapers there you'd never know Scotland was part of the UK. My parents get three daily papers: the Glasgow Herald, the Record and the Mail. There's very little national news covered. I actually think many Scottish people live in their own little bubble.

People in London should be hugely interested in everything that happens in Scotland, but London news is irrelevant and of no interest to us Scots.

It really is an inferiority complex. Come on, we can be better than this.

To be honest, as a civil engineer, I don;t think the (perceived ?) lack of coverage is because it's Scotland, i think it's because it's a civil engineering structure. People just take infrastructure for granted, new or otherwise It doesn't make for sexy, appealing news coverage. When was the last time there was news article about engineering anywhere else? Don't say HS2, that is entirely a political issue so far.

I'm in Edinburgh. When the weather lady (our fave is Judith the Dominatrix) mentions Orkney my DP shouts WHO THE FUCK CARES

Which I think is indicative of a general human tendency to be less engaged with faraway places you've never been to than with what you can see from your own window.

Miaow - actually no, I wasn't referring to the fatal accident at all - but you continue chewing your wasps if it helps you feel superior.

Big Breakfast weather had three drops of rain to show England getting rained on but only two for Scotland?

did they?

miaow making jibes at you is too easy given your low threshold of tolerance. All somebody has to do is disagree with you and you self combust.
You're way too worked up about issues of the referendum when the topic OP posted about was about the coverage given to the opening of the Queensferry Bridge relative to other issues.
But still - I'll leave you to your temper tantrum - have a good day and a nice quiet lie down.

I was at the opening ceremony where the Queen unveiled the plaque yesterday. ..was chucking it down with rain! !