first, there is no doubt about the main broadcasting event of the weekend, and the bbc, along with the rest of the media, have been gearing up for the coronation all week. we ll be looking in more detail next week at how bbc news has covered the ceremony and the celebrations around it. but in the meantime, here s royal correspondent nicholas witchell on the preparations being made over the past few days. in the potteries and other places in the souvenir business, they ve been gearing up for this moment for months. turning out the mugs and plates and a host of other goods which commemorate the coronation. it all means jobs and a significant boost for trade. by the time that report was shown on tuesday. mike dixon had already had enough. i accept that the coronation is newsworthy, but the coverage is utterly sycophantic and certainly not balanced . we constantly hear everyone will be celebrating, everyone will be partying, everyone will be watching it . but the bbc are ignor
but the bbc are ignoring a recent yougov poll which clearly shows more than half the uk population are not interested in it . all we ever hear, which is not pro coronation, is the occasional disparaging reference to anti monarchy activists . but rob jordan thought that anti monarchists were being given too much attention by the bbc, pointing towards these two articles on the news website. the articles are very negative . why isn t there a more balanced approach ? more of that debate to come, as they say. but we ve also had feedback relating to coverage of the local elections, which took place on thursday in most parts of england, though not in the rest of the uk. this included the traditional all night results programme shown both on bbc one uk wide, and on the news channel. there were compliments for the extent and range of the bbc s reporting, but also objections such as this telephone message. this is disgruntled of pembrokeshire. here in wales we have not had