Iain Dale's Diary: Live Blogging & 18 Doughty Street Election Coverage

Thursday, May 03, 2007

Live Blogging & 18 Doughty Street Election Coverage

I'm sure every one is looking forward to tonight and tomorrow's election coverage. Click HERE for a list of who's live blogging tonight.

At 18 Doughty Street we are putting together our coverage, which will run from 7.30pm until midnight and then we'll be live video blogging from the studio until ~~we are bored~~ some unearthly hour in the morning. We'll then resume at 10am and go through till mid afternoon. We're going to be reliant on our informants for information, so if you are at a count or have some juicy information to impart quickly, you can contact me throughout the evening and night in any of the following ways...

Email: iain AT 18doughtystreet.com
MSN Messenger: studio AT 18doughtystreet.com
Telephone: 0871 7161118 to go live into the programme (calls 10p per minute)
Telephone: 0207 405 1818 (with results, info, gossip)
Text: 83222 (type COMMENT before your message) Texts cost 50p

Here's our schedule...

7.30pm Wales preview
8.00pm Scotland preview
8.30pm England preview
9.00pm Minor Parties Platform (with UKIP, Greens, CPA and English Democrats)
10pm Britain Votes 2007
Midnight onwards Live videoblogging

Friday 10am onwards Britain Votes 2007 including live blogging of results

6 comments:

Anonymous said...: Keep up the good work, I'm sure your coverage will be better than the BBC's (not much of a compliment there!); May 03, 2007 4:07 pm
Chris Paul said...: You have premium taxt charges for tip offs? How very unusual!; May 03, 2007 4:09 pm
Anonymous said...: All

The Wardman Wire Election 2007 chatroom is up and running. I will be there from about 7-8pm.

There is a list of election RSS feeds there (and a downloadable file to import into your RSS reader).

Chatroom:
http://www.mattwardman.com/blog/uk-election-2007/

Most coverage on the frontpage.

Matt

PS Chris,

I wonder if the tip offs have already been written before people send the texts !!!

Matt; May 03, 2007 5:23 pm
jailhouselawyer said...: Iain: Why am I getting this response when I click on your 18DS link?

Application error

Change this error message for exceptions thrown outside of an action (like in Dispatcher setups or broken Ruby code) in public/500.html; May 03, 2007 5:26 pm
Anonymous said...: Got it going.

I will be syndicating headlines from 10 of the main UK liveblogging feeds in my sidebar, so you can track the news as well as talk about it.

I have "corporate" feeds for Tories (ConservativeHome) and LibDems (LibDemVoice). Is anyone doing the same for Labour (Labour Home are on TV)?

http://www.mattwardman.com/blog/uk-election-2007/

I'm out to vote, then tea, then starting.

Matt; May 03, 2007 6:18 pm
Anonymous said...: Iain just watching the section on the minor parties. A good programme but I have a question. Would you ever consider having the representatives either of the BNP or Respect on such a programme? Or do have a "no platform" policy?

The reason I ask is that both these parties are more likely to gain councillors that either the English Democrats of the Christian Peoples Alliance.; May 03, 2007 9:59 pm