On Radio 5 - 50+ people on the French terrorist watch list had air-side access at De Gaulle airport ..... words fail me!
Not sure if I was listening to the same comment on 5 Live, but what I heard was that, after the Paris attacks, the authorities reviewed the security passes of the c.30,000 staff at CDG and removed airside passes from about 60. There was no mention of these 60 being on a watch-list as such. Either way, it's always best not to take what the media say at face value.
Later in the day (yesterday) I listened to a presenter interview a politician about the BBC's plan to make savings by reducing the amount they spend on SEO for 10,000 recipes. Neither seemed to have a clue about the subject they were discussing. The politician kept repeating "how can it save the BBC money by taking off recipes that are already on the BBC website & paid for by the license fee payers?" whilst the interviewer kept repeating "So tell me what you would cut in order to reduce the BBC's budget?"
Back to the missing Egyptair flight, I heard on the news this morning that "the wreckage located in the Mediterranean was not, in fact, from the missing flight - as had previously been reported". The only sensible comment I've heard so far has been from a retired air crash investigator who said that a) we must be patient, and b) the info released must be accurate rather than quick.
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