Nicola Tallent

And of course Ernie's the guy taking the photographs, you know, so he's on the phone to me.

So I actually had gone for a pizza for lunch and I had come back over to the office and the phone rings and it was Ernie.

And I answered and he was panicked on the other end of the phone.

Like, I mean, this was real high octane stuff.

And he's still trying to take photos.

He's trying to tell me what's happened.

He's told me he thinks he's got a good one of one of the shooters as they were running from the scene.

He was trying to call up the photograph on the back of his camera because it would have taken him a while to get it onto a screen.

But he'd also sent it into the office.

Yeah.

You know what I mean?

So he was kind of in the middle of doing a number of things.

And as I was on the phone to him from memory, the photograph came into the office and we put it up on the big screen.

And it was clear to see that this wasn't just one of the shooters, as he suspected, but it was two.

One of them was dressed as a woman.

Which is, of course, it is.

Yeah, as soon as it came in.

And of course, you know, look, the newsroom, newsrooms aren't as busy as they used to be.

They used to be very busy, buzzy places with phones ringing everywhere.

And it felt like a proper newsroom that day.