Summary
THE BBC has been left red faced after police raced to reports of a robbery at a newsagents, only to find it was a television reconstruction they hadn't been told about.
Producers of the programme Crime- watch neglected to tell Northumbria Police they were using actors armed with weapons to film a scene at Mills Newsagents in North Shields, North Tyneside.See the full content of this document
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BBC blunder sees police rush to 'raid' ; Nobody told reconstruction was ongoing
A terrified passer-by phoned 999 after seeing the actors brandishing a hammer at staff and police raced to ...
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