It's partly because there's not a lot fresh to say that won't be in the 1700 news. And there's a lot to cram in tonight including reporter packages which we sort of need to balance the number of interviews.
Anyway - here's what you could have won, as lifted from the running order:..
"The curious thing about the three terror suspects who're on the run is that people from all sides have managed to claim that things might have been different if only they'd been listened to.
Newspaper front pages screamed for attention this morning. There was the Daily Mail's
VOICE UP:
FIND THEM. New security shambles as three terror suspects under control orders go on run.
EDDIE:
For the Daily Mirror the message was
VOICE UP:
GET THEM. "extreme danger" terror suspects on loose.
EDDIE:
But how dangerous are these three men judged to be?
We were told last night by deputy Assistant Police Commissioner Peter Clarke that the public should not approach the men but dial 999.
This morning the ±«Óãtv Secretary John Reid called the men "dangerous", though NOT a direct threat to the public.
Then Britain's most senior police officer Sir Ian Blair said nobody could be perfectly satisfied that the men were not a risk to the public in Britain.
As I say there is agreement, though for different reasons, that there's something wrong with the current control order system.
The ±«Óãtv Secretary John Reid in his first public comment this morning complained of the imitations placed on the authorities by Parliament, the courts and the law. It was like having to fight with one hand tied behind his back.
He elaborated later in the House of Commons.
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For the Shadow Attorney General Dominic Grieve the problem was one of the Government's making.
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OUT WORDS: to take action on this point
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Shami Chakrabarti, the director of the human rights organisation Liberty, insisted control orders were not the answer.
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OUT WORDS: ... our security policy.
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OUT WORDS: ... our security policy.
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It emerged this afternoon that one of the three men who've absconded while under control orders had previously appeared at the Old Bailey - for breaching his control order."
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