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The ITV News take on the Genoa bridge collapse was at best crass, at worst staggeringly inappropriate

John Plunkett. Updated August 15th, 2018

Someone at ITV News probably should have rewritten the intro to the lead story about the Genoa bridge collapse in which it has now been confirmed that at least 35 people died.

We’d say it was pure Alan Partridge but it feels a bit more serious than that, basically reporting the lead story in the style of ‘and finally …’.

‘How often have all of us driven over a motorway bridge? Has it ever crossed your mind that it might actually fall down beneath you? Well today in Genoa, one did, with devastating consequences …’

Here’s what people made of it online.

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