[Stuart]

Here’s an interesting bulletin from 4 November 1995, the night Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated. However when the bulletin started he was still reported as alive, but we have the situation of the News of his death being reported after the Weather and Lottery result.

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I believe that the BBC at the time (and possibly still do) require either:

[*]their own evidence of an event by a correspondent, or
[*]two separate external sources before they confirm news of such events, or
[*]an official announcement, especially of a death.


Perhaps they were waiting for one of those to occur which caused the delay announcing the death.

Good find though, nwtv2003. It was an interesting bulletin.