The power of the public

Forget Baby P or impending economic gloom.

Just a quick look at this post shows you what the public is really interested in

Tom Van Aart tells the story

The British public obviously cares a great deal about Strictly Come Dancing, perhaps more than anything else in the world.
After John Sergeant pulled out, we had an incredible response on the BBC message boards on Wednesday 19 October.
Eventually, I decided to close the Strictly Come Dancing board at 22:00 so the moderators could work through the backlog of messages. Personally I think Paul on the Central Communities Team and our external moderation provider did an amazing job to try and keep this under control.

Lets just get this into context 170,000 messages were posted before the day was out

Sergeant gets more injuries from Strictly Come Dancing

I must admit that I had to laugh at the comments of John Sergeant who claimed that he had more injuries practicing for the next series of structly Come Dancing that while he was off reporting from the World's war zones.

The Telegraph reports that

Speaking as the corporation unveiled the new line-up for the show, Sergeant, 64, said: "I've injured both my left and right foot - more injuries than I ever had when I was a war correspondent for the BBC. It's a very tough assignment, and I think I am showing a lot of bravery.
"Every day I ask myself whether I was right to take the decision [to take part in the show] and I say, 'Yes, I was'. I might even learn to dance."

The reporter will best be known from reporting another battle zone,outside the British embassy in Paris when the first round results of the leadership attempt on Mrs Thatcher became known.Live on camera he was confronted by the Iron Lady rushing down the steps to announce that she would be putting her name forwrad to the second ballot