Category: News
Date: 08.07.2005
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Following yesterday's bomb attacks in London there were further changes to BBC broadcast schedules today (Friday 8 July).
There was extended news coverage on BBC ONE this morning to 10.30am and again from 11.00 to 11.25am to cover a Metropolitan Police press conference.
BBC ONE's One O'Clock News and BBC Radio 4's The World at One were extended to 45 minutes.
On BBC ONE tonight from 9.00 to 10.00pm Only Fools and Horses: Modern Men will replace What's the Problem? With Anne Robinson and Before They Were Famous.
BBC TWO's Newsnight at 10.30pm is extended to 11.35pm and Newsnight Review is dropped.
The planned BBC World Service schedule for today is: special continous news schedule to noon (UK time); Noon: Outlook;
1.00pm: Newshour (extended to two hours);
3.00pm: normal schedules;
4.30pm: special Talking Point programme;
5.00pm onwards: normal schedules.
Tomorrow (Saturday 9 July) there will be news coverage on BBC ONE from 6.00 to 10.00am. CBBC programmes move to BBC TWO.
Weekend changes on BBC Radio Five Live include replacing Saturday's Ian Wright Show (7.00pm) with a repeat of The Real Bernie Ecclestone.
On Sunday at 7.30pm Five Live's Alternative G8 presented by Christian Fraser from South Africa has been added to the schedule.
And on Radio 2 on Saturday because the REM concert is not taking place in London's Hyde Park there will be a repeat of Duran Duran: Live and Exclusive at 9.30pm.
