BBC relegates live VJ Day coverage to digital channel By Sara Nathan "The BBC caused anger yesterday by failing to screen the VJ Day anniversary service live on either of its main terrestrial channels. Veterans, politicians and royalty gathered to commemorate the 65th anniversary of Victory over Japan Day. But instead of screening the moving service on BBC1 or BBC2, Corporation chiefs decided to relegate it to the BBC News Channel. To the fury of ex-servicemen and women, the half-hour service was ignored in favour of Murder, She Wrote and the EastEnders omnibus on BBC1. On BBC2, television bosses plumped for a repeat of the Inside Sport special, The Princess Royal at 60. MPs expressed dismay at the BBC's decision to put a repeat of a soap opera before the need to honour Britain's war heroes. Tory MP Patrick Mercer, a former infantry commander, said: 'The troops in Burma always called themselves the Forgotten Army. Now their final victory is being snubbed as well...." Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1303391/BBC-relegates-live-VJ-Da\ y-coverage-digital-channel.html#ixzz0wiyQp4H4 <http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1303391/BBC-relegates-live-VJ-D\ ay-coverage-digital-channel.html#ixzz0wiyQp4H4 Last updated at 12:09 AM on 16th August 2010 BBC relegates live VJ Day coverage to digital channel By Sara Nathan -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar Sent: Monday, August 16, 2010 1:02 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ] Veterans gather to commemorate victory overJapan guardian.co.uk, Sunday 15 August 2010 Veterans gather to commemorate victory over Japan Survivors of far east campaign attend Cenotaph memorial service to mark 65th anniversary of conflict The Fourteenth Army, known as "the forgotten army", which fought back against the Japanese in India and then Burma, was the largest ever assembled by the British Empire and Commonwealth numbering more than half a million men, 340,000 of whom were from India, 100,000 from Britain and 119,000 from the east and west African colonies. http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/aug/15/vj-day-victory-japan-cenotaph-memor ial --- Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message