a great tension has broken. the epoque of fear, of desperation, of robert mugabe has ended. how rarely does politics translate into something so truly felt? this is history in the making. this is history, you guys! that was the bbc reporting the joyous reaction of zimbabweans or joining in the celebrations itself? one viewer thought the latter, writing: one consequence of robert mugabe resignation was the queen became the world's oldest living head of state and, as it happened, her majesty had had her own cause for celebration the previous day

common anniversary which featured prominently on the news all day. when it came to newsnight on bbc two, emily maitlis signed off with the programmes own take on the landmark occasion. before we go on the 20th of november 1937 under grey skies and cheered on by thousands of well—wishers, princess elizabeth married lieutenant philip mountbatten. 70 years later the queen and prince philip are celebrating their platinum wedding anniversary but the relationship with europe was about to change. spain was in crisis as warring factions fought for control. some things don't change, including those grey skies. here are some pictures from the 1937 day. goodnight. apt parallels between 1937 on the present day but was the wedding of the queen and prince philip actually in 1937 as confidently stated there twice? no, the year was 19117. surely it should have been apparent that the princess elizabeth would not have married at the age of 11.

who checks facts? surely emily maitlis‘s common—sense should have told her none of this could be true. what next? an article about prince charles visiting the troops on the western front? thank you to cedric malborough and all the viewers who pointed out newsnight‘s mathematical mistake, for which they have apologised. last saturday, the body of guy pope was found near her home in dorset after extensive search. police have described her death as unexplained and on monday released without charge three members of the whole family who had been arrested on suspicion of murder. that led gary snashall to ask: wednesday's news was

dominated by the budget. that night's bulletin started with a report from political editor laura kuenssberg. almost ready to go, a big day for downing street. whose grip for months has been shaky to say the least. the priority for number ten and 11 those powerful next—door neighbours was for today's events not to slip, to keep the budget is tightly within their grasp. the chancellor, the aim to be the steady national bank manager, not to tear up the rules altogether.

knowing his ownjob as well as the government's fortunes would be shaped by what she was about to say. much more on the budget followed, too much for tony siddell, who said: glenn scott also picked up on the westminster village aspect of the coverage and recorded his thoughts on video. if ever there was a prime example of westminster media card talent is the prior reporting the budget.

i would suggest the most important thing for the people of this country is not whether the chancellor keeps hisjob all the respect of his cabinet colleagues but how the budget will affect each and every one of us. we do not want an opinion from the westminster insiders, wake up and smell the coffee, political presenters. now, there was plenty of detail around the budget coverage, including a welter of facts, figures and statistics. to help the audience make sense of these, bbc news and especially its website provided a number of graphs and other visual material enabling us all to calculate the impact of some of the chancellor's measures and the state of economy. these are all part of a big area of growth for bbc news known as data journalism, and with me now to tell us about it isjohn walton. data journalism is talked about a lot, what is it and is it something new. i think data journalism is no different from traditional

journalism, except for the raw materials a data journalist is using. so a data journalist is often starting their story with data or statistics. so you might find them rummaging in a spread sheet, which is quite different image from that of the typical kind of roving reporter. but i think it has been with us for a long time. you could argue that people like florence nightingale could be a data journalist, if you look at the kind of visualisation she did of the figures around the crimean war, so that kind of thing has been around for a long time. but the reason we are getting into this is that it's helping people understand the world around them. there is ever increasing amounts of data and it's part of daily life, so we need to be across that. some of it i suppose is things like freedom of information requests which releases data that people wouldn't otherwise necessarily have got to see. that's right there is all sorts of things like freedom of information and data is just ubiquitous, whether you're finding it from government or businesses. how much data are you dealing

with on stories, perhaps you would look at the house pricing story you did recently. so the house pricing story is a really good example of that. we wanted to see how house prices had recovered since 2007 and the crash. and what we did to do that was we looked at eight million rows of data — all the house sales in england and wales over that period. so we could look at how that had changed across england and wales. and we were able to look at those figures and estimate that about 58% of neighbourhoods had not recovered once inflation is taken into account. so their house prices were actually lower than when they started in 2007. are you finding new stories as well through this? yes, so one series of stories was on the nhs, when we looked at nhs figures. we have also done the house price story that we mentioned. but we are looking in all sorts of places.

we did some civil aviation figures. so there is lot of different data sources and this is a growth area for journalists. there is so much data. not everybody has the skills to interpret it themselves. it is something we need to be across. some people have said that the personalised stories that can appear on the news web—site, can seem oversimplified. do you put in enough data for them to be really meaningful? i think we do, i think that as long as you put context around the figures, if you can show how they may have changed or you can show how they may compare to another country, as long as you're putting context around the figures, i think the audience can make their own judgments as to how useful they find them. we also with more than half of the audience to the web—site at least coming on a mobile phone, we have a very small canvas to work with, so people have to be able to take in figures that are just

on that small screen and we have to work with that. one complaint we have had at newswatch and it comes up, when they're watching reports that give a number, x million pounds extra to nhs, but not a context tot make a judgment about them. that has not been a criticism of web—site, but sometimes of news reports. why is that happening and what can you do about it? i think it happens simply because you, if you're covering something like the budget it is difficult not to get into the figures. but i think there are things you can do to humanise that. if you want to help people understand figures you can bring them down to a human level and instead of saying there maybe one billion pounds spent on such and such, you try and work out what that figure might be per household. or per person. or if it is education per child. so you humanise the figures and make them smaller and making them more relevant to people. before we go, a taste of what thursday's afternoon life brought its viewers in the studio

ahead of this weekend's uk beat boxing championship tara mulholland posted her reaction on twitter. but after the item had been re—shown an hour later, richard mills thought: do let us know if you would like to see more or less beat boxing on bbc news and if you have any other opinions on bbc news and current affairs or would like to appear on the programme you can call us on: or email:

you can find us on twitter: do have a look at our website, the address for that is: that is all from us. we're back to hear your thoughts about bbc news coverage again next week. goodbye. hello, there. it's going to be cold this weekend, that's for sure, but many places will stay dry and see plenty of sunshine, so if you wrap up it won't be that bad. plenty of showers though in the north and west. certainly overnight plenty of showers across the north—west of the uk, with wintriness mixed in, some cumulating snow over the hills, and that will lead to an ice problem in many northern and western areas to start saturday morning. it really will be a cold and frosty start. the wind will be a feature on saturday. that will make it feel colder than it actually is, and there'll be plenty of showers to start saturday morning. even longer spells of rain perhaps across the north and north—east

of scotland and into the northern isles, here with gale force winds as well. wintry showers across the west of scotland, into northern ireland and down on the north—west england. snow again on the hills. some of these showers running through the cheshire gap, in towards the midlands already at 9am on saturday morning. plenty of sunshine in the east and south—east, but still a few showers running into west wales, cornwall and devon, so you get the picture. it really will be a cold start, but some areas seeing lots of sunshine. in fact, central, southern and eastern parts of the country will stay dry all day. lots of sunshine, where showers continue in the northern and western areas, again with snow on the hills. quite blustery as well with those strong north—west winds. we'll see values of 3—7 celsius. add on the wind and it will feel even colder than that. but at least you have the sunshine to compensate further south and east. that's the area of low pressure bringing the gale force winds to the far north—east of the uk. that slowly moves away and we start to see the influence of this area of high pressure from the west,

before this weather system moves in during sunday night. so it looks like with that influence of high pressure the showers will ease down somewhat. fewer showers in western areas on sunday. again, there will be a few, with wintriness over high ground, but emphasis on dry and bright weather in northern, central and eastern areas before things turn cloudier across the west, with the arrival of the weather system. so again, it will be another cold day. this weather system is hurtling across the uk on sunday night and by monday morning it will be across southern and eastern part of the uk. a brief surge of milder air with the rain as it runs across southern areas. behind it, though, sunshine and showers follow on, and again turning cold as arctic air begins to push down from the north. double—figure values for a time on monday morning. you can see the orange colours move away and then a surge of arctic air returns across the uk pretty much throughout the rest of the week. welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to viewers in north america and around the globe.

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