Newsflash: everybody out!

Channel 4 News had to go off air at lunch time when its studios were evacuated after a fire alarm. Presenter Krishnan Guru-Murthy was interviewing government minister Caroline Flint when an alarm sounded at Independent Television News headquarters, and he told viewers that the programme would have to go to a commercial break. Guru-Murthy told viewers that he would hopefully be back to present the business news, but as staff were not given the all-clear to return to work until about 20 minutes after the broadcast ended, the rest of the news never appeared. It was all a false alarm, and some blamed the overly sensitive fire alarms.