Reacting to the death of UK Soldiers in Iraq

 by Martin Belam, 5 November 2004

On Wednesday we did a controlled experiment in using the Breaking News mode on the bbc.co.uk homepage. Sadly, we hadn't even had a chance to assess the data around it before we had to unexpectedly use it again to announce the deaths of UK soldiers in a suicide bomb attack mounted against the controversial deployment of Black Watch Regiment soldiers in Iraq.

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