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School bomb threats live: Mass evacuations across Northern Ireland and Scotland
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- 5
- Last 3 hours
- 8 reports
- Momentum
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How the coverage splits
Where it’s heading
Probably peaked. Likely 2 to 3 newsrooms by 3:47am AEDT. Calls like this were right 92% of the time. How we knowAgainst the past week
More newsrooms than 85% of the past week’s 3614 stories, and number 160 of 1531 in News.
1Schools across Scotland and Northern Ireland have reportedly been evacuated following widespread bomb threats sent by email, with police launching urgent investigations and pupils sent home.
In The Mirror’s words.2
The story so far
5 newsrooms- Reports
- 8
- Newsrooms and sources
- 5
- Last 3 hours
- 8
First with it: ANSA, 6 min before anyone else.
Reported by 5 newsrooms.
Counted as one newsroom each, because they ran the same copy: Daily Express, The Mirror (all Reach).
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How it spread, where it’s heading and where the coverage is from
Where the coverage is from
How it spread
Newsrooms reporting it, each counted at its first report.
- Newsrooms
- 5
- Over
- 40 min
- To three newsrooms
- 14 min
| Time | Newsroom | Total |
|---|---|---|
| 9:17pm AEDT | ANSA | 1 |
| 9:23pm AEDT | The Irish Times | 2 |
| 9:31pm AEDT | Daily Express | 3 |
| 9:46pm AEDT | Metro | 4 |
| 9:57pm AEDT | France 24 | 5 |
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