Recent content by Xander

Sure Alec, but the ease of communication doesn't absolve us from acting according to the basic rules of decency. I wouldn't rush up to someone in the street and say "ooh Jane, your Mum's dead. Sorry but everyone in the road is talking about it". Not acceptable pre social media, not acceptable...

BE may be behind the media but .... you did the right thing. Such a sad day for the sport God knows how the course designers/builders must be feeling (I don't mean to suggest there was any fault there btw)

Obviously people were there and may have been following on Twitter and Facebook. After a tragic death last year (where the next of kin were unavailable) and the incident was widely discussed, I think BE are just trying to prevent anything similar happening.

And I can't see why you'd want to chuck more petrol on the fire.

I totally agree with TGM. It can't possibly help anyone to discuss this.

I've just seen the update from Luhmuhlen on Twitter and it's terribly sad. Maybe it's better not to discuss anything until we know more. Awful day.

The BBC reported: 'I made an error, of course' Oh dear. I think I'll stick to the Torygraph ftom now on. :D

.. on winning the Grand Prix Special at the Euros. Top three all seem to have had an error of course. Or am I going mad?

I think the Kiwi news site has pulled the story. Expect this thread to disappear soon

I got that impression too.

Very sad indeed. RIP.

The BBC are pretty useless about publishing red button coverage details. The ones they do are often wrong. You frequently have to check all the channels, they don't give a countdown and it just starts (or not). The first horse is on the course at 12, so I'll be hunting around from 11:45...

I'd forgotten about the really cheesy adverts.

I doubt they'll fix the issues as they are using the html5 audio tag with mp3 (currently not supported by my version of Firefox). You can check your browser support for this functionality here. It might save a bit of fiddling about trying to get it to work. I guess I'll stick with Chrome too!

No control panel with Firefox 12.0. Working fine with the latest Google Chrome :D