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BBC prepares to make News at Ten longer

• Expected 10-minute extension would increase competition with Newsnight and comes as rivalry with ITV heats up 

• The longer programme – which would end at about 10.45pm – would increase competition for Newsnight, BBC2’s current affairs programme, which starts at 10.30pm. 

• The BBC1 bulletin regularly brings in more than 4 million viewers, while Newsnight has recently attracted audiences of about 700,000. 

• The BBC is preparing to lengthen its flagship late evening news bulletin with an expected 10 minutes of regional coverage, creating an overlap with the beginning of Newsnight. 

• BBC news have announced that they have plans of extending the 10pm show by an extra 10 minutes, from this they hope to gain extra competition from shows like newsnight and ITV

"YouAintNoMuslimBruv" trendingas Britons hail onlooker’s riposte

• Putdown from witness to Leytonstone attack flies as a hashtag on social media as users applaud response to suspected London tube attacker 

• It was the spontaneous putdown of the knife attacker that captured public feeling about the assault in Leytonstone underground station: “You ain’t no Muslim bruv.” 

• The witness’s phrase quickly spread as people used #youaintnomuslimbruv to show their contempt for the suspected London tube station terrorist.

This is a story circulating a video that wen viral and it was a recording of someone shouting at someone who claimed to be a muslim as he was stabbing and fighting people. In my opinion, this is a great example how new and digital media has allowed citizen journalism to expand