to think that as i live in england/britain that i would like the news

[2shoes]

to concentrate of things like the bad stroms in scotland. rsther than hilary clinton.

Where's Scotland?

I'd like a good mix of news. I don't like just British news. But I would like to hear about the storms in Scotland too, I must say.

The U.S. elections are important news for the whole of the world, IMHO.

lol @ English people wanting news about weather rather than leader of free world

well yes, the US elections are important, but it's just the preliminary stages atm, so I agree 2shoes.

You are correct, it should run domestic/Europe then US.

But as Tony Blair was a Bush lap dog for sooooooooooo long, it is probably learned behaviour by the BBC.

IMO

Just looking at the item on the storms on the Scotland pages of the BBC website, i think it's also difficult to say something new about storms.

the next future president of the USA will pretty much become the most powerful individual in the world, i'm taking a keen interest.

ps, am scottish, got all the news o the storms from my mum on the phone tonight. will be going to see for myself on friday

I think international news is sometimes just as important - or even more important - than national or regional news. We don't live in isolation from the rest of the world. What happens elsewhere affects us greatly - particularly what happens in the USA. Like it or not, that's a fact. I actually think that's one of the great things about British news (particularly BBC and C4 news). Go to the USA and watch the news, and it's like living in a vacuum. The whole world could be falling apart and all you'll hear about is some meaningless story about an American celebrity on loop on every channel. Depressing, and glad it's not like that here.

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Have there been storms in Scotland?

my mum in glasgow said all the bridges were closed.

when i lived in oz i despaired about the lack of international news on terrestrial tv and in newspapers, not much really goes on in australia, well, not that much that interested me, and i was aching for some international news, in the days before t'internet. i ended up paying a small fortune for foreign newspapers.

Watching the news earlier, I was bemused to hear one of the people interviewed re the elections said something along the lines of needing someone strong to "continue the war against terror". Don't they need someone to run their country?

I accept that the usa elections will be covered. BUT they were the top story and the end story. I mean it is not happening today. so we have months of it.(it was ITV by the way) I just don't see why half the news needs to be taken up with it.

Tell me when the UK news didn't cover US elections with huge interest

Iowa caucus and New Hampshire primary top of UK TV news predates Blair by a long way.

What Little said, in fact.

Anyway there'd be no point them covering us - watch this...

...and weep.

I'm weeping.....

"I'm a little bit mixed up between the Israelis and the Palestinians.
Which one is throwing the rocks?"

Look, the media coverage in Britain stops just north of Manchester. If you're north of that, you can make your own news, as no-one that matters in this country is interested in what you're doing.

That seems to be the prevailing attitude in TV and print journalism anyway...

In fact, even the local media are trying to get in on the act - our local paper's front page story concerns the fact that Barack Obama's brother in law had his stag party here and Barack ACTUALLY CAME TO IT.

It was 10 years ago, the actual wedding was in a different town, and the couple are now divorced, but it still merits half the front page....

Apparently 10 years ago, this town held the record for the highest density of pubs per square mile in the country, which explains why there were so many stag nights here.

And there is a footnote:
"Do you remember Mr Obama's night out, or which pubs he went to? Call Victoria Corbett on (0118) 936 6188

The answer to AIBU is so often YABU, isn't it?

No man, or indeed country, is an island

Not any more

i'm more worried about the polar bear more than anything else.