and sarah duffy was also in touch with us "may i remind you, you are a news programme?show anniversary does not deserve this amount of coverage". dave nash added, "this feature was on all bbc news programmes and given a lot of airtime. i would say this was just self—promotion by the bbc but richard carlo sent us this brief rejoinder to those views. creating a giant sinkhole, as tom simons reported it appeared late on monday night. we could see the waterjust starting to come out, and then 20 minutes later we find out that we've we got a knock on the door. we had tojust get - what we could and leave. alarming for the residents of godstone, but peter stoughton compared the coverage of the surrey sinkhole south shields, which featured on the bbc website locally. reporting on the bbc news website. how come the sinkhole in south shields was only reported on bbc local news and not bbc national, is there within the bbc a north/south divide else that you see or hear on bbc news, on tv, radio, online and social media. you can call us or whatsapp us on 0370 0106676. bbc.co.uk slas