Thursday 30/11/2006  Story: as above Now three BA planes have been found to have traces of radiation. 33,000 passengers could potentially be concerned about their health. A forth plane, a Trans aero flight, which arrived in London  at 0100 this morning is also ‘of interest’. And now possibly a fifth Russian plane too. It goes…

Wednesday 29/11/2006  Story:            Poisoned ex-spy, the latest. A sunny day so went to film 25 & 58 Grovesnor Street, 7 Down Street and also the Sheraton Park Lane Hotel. All venues where radiation has been found. One venue, 4th floor or No.25, contains a security company, Erinys, and the Down Street address has the offices…

Monday 27/11/2006  Story:   Ex-Spy’s demise Left home at 0510 for a very blustery ride into work. The plan for this morning was a set of live reports for our evening news show in Japan, planned for 0800 and 0900 GMT. The chosen location was from the Itsu restaurant on Piccadilly. We had hired an OB…

Sunday 26/11/2006  Story:   Ex-Spy’s demise 1120 on a Sunday morning and I was just throwing the children around the bedroom and looking forward to the afternoon. My phone rang and I was asked to come into work for the continuing saga of the poisoned spy. I was not happy. My son started crying saying it…

Friday 24/11/2006  Story:   The poisoned spy… continued. We had permission to film inside the Pine bar at the Millennium hotel. We were to get 15 minutes from 1030 to 1045 and no tripods were allowed. On arrival at the hotel we saw a lot of police and were not allowed in, we were asked to…

Thursday 23/11/2006  Story:            Footballers side business – Cricket, a Liverpool boutique.                      Alexander Litvineko, the demise of an ex-spy. Train to Liverpool at 0917. Cricket in Liverpool is a boutique shop visited by many people with money to spare including the WAGS of numerous football players in the North West. It does not really look…

Wednesday 22/11/2006  Story:            Footballers side business – Beckingham Palace A telling off to start the day. I got in early to pack up and be ready to go but whilst waiting for the others I began looking through or own file tapes for the aerial shots of the Beckham’s house that I’d taken from a…

Wednesday 15/11/06  Story: Michael Jackson back in the UK After a nine year absence he’s back, Wacko Jacko is in town to collect an award at the World Music Awards and we had been asked by one of our late night news shows to get whatever we could about the event. He had actually arrived…

Monday 13/11/06 – Tuesday 14/11/06  Story: Casino Royale Premiere / Spies reality  Monday  MI5 and MI6 general shots and stand up reports. Street interviews about Daniel Craig, Bond films, the real use of intelligence and how spies might actually be. A lot of interview typing and editing. More last minute archive newspaper filming for the…

Friday 10/11/06  Story:   Uniqlo UK, now and then.                 Documentary requests, London and Heathrow scenes. a.k.a. How to be subject to a Stop and Search under sec 44 Prevention of Terrorism Act 2000 The Japanese clothes shop, Uniqlo, was about to open in New York and so our head office wanted our old library tapes…