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It is a dilemma as old as that episode of The Likely Lads when they spend all day trying to avoid the England score: how not to find out the result of your favourite sporting event before you have watched the highlights. And with our 24-hour rolling news culture, it's only getting harder. One BBC viewer (and listener) took their complaint all the way to the BBC Trust after the results of the Australian Grand Prix qualifying round were read out on a Radio 4 news bulletin. They said the corporation should take greater care when reading out results and certainly only do so in a sports – rather than general news – bulletin. The BBC said time constraints meant it wasn't always possible to issue a "spoiler alert" and said it would seem "very odd" not to mention in a news bulletin a sporting event that it had broadcast live. It wasn't the first time this particular person had raised the complaint, and Monkey has a hunch it might not be the last. Feels like they're going round in circles. A bit like Formula One.TV newsTelevision industryFormula OneMotor sportBBCRadio industryRadio 4BBC TrustMonkey
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