Ron Heggs Posted October 22, 2014 Share Posted October 22, 2014 Looks as though the BBC believe Sweden is in Africa Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium mezzoman253 Posted October 22, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 22, 2014 It's probably BBC World Service for Africa. They generally have pages for continents, North America, South America etc. No different from reporting that same story as news for the UK really. Rob Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Ian J. Posted October 22, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 22, 2014 Not really. The link is to the bbc.com site and to the world-africa page: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-29719191 Right now (14:56, 22/10/2014), it happens to be on the .co.uk site as well: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-29719191 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pacific231G Posted October 22, 2014 Share Posted October 22, 2014 Looks as though the BBC believe Sweden is in Africa Sweden.png No, they were reporting that story on the news pages aimed at Africa which cover international as well as specifically African news. Since it's on the internet you can pick up any of the BBC's online news outputs with equal ease. Since the government forced the BBC to pay for World Service (and S4C) out of UK licence fees rather than via a Foreign Office grant- effectively a very large hidden cut in its funding- there's been a lot more integration of domestic and overseas news services so they're far more based on a common core of stories. They are also now all in New Broadcasting House instead of World Service being in a completely different building (Bush House) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Ron Ron Posted October 22, 2014 Share Posted October 22, 2014 Maybe Sweden has gone south for the winter? . Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium jjb1970 Posted October 22, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 22, 2014 The real story is, well, the story itself. Are the Swedish Navy chasing an illusion, is there a Russian submarine in their waters, is it something else? What happens if they do identify something and try and force it to the surface? What does it signify if it is indeed a Russian sub? I really hope the Swedish Navy have had an attack of periscopitis as was called and it will be remembered as an embarrassing mistake. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
station cat Posted October 22, 2014 Share Posted October 22, 2014 It's October - sub hunting season innit? Oh how I wish I could claim the credit for that line Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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