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Employees of the BBC form a picket line during a strike in May 2005. Picketing is a form of protest in which people (called pickets or picketers) [ 1 ] congregate outside a place of work or location where an event is taking place.
Horses tied on chest-height picket lines. A picket line is a horizontal rope along which horses are tied at intervals. The rope can be on the ground, at chest height (above the knees, below the neck) or overhead. The overhead form is usually called a high line. A variant of a high line, used to tie a single horse, is a horizontal pole attached ...
Picket line, to tether horses "Picket line" is also used in picketing, a form of protest See also: "Crossing the picket line" Picket (military), a soldier or small unit placed ahead of the main formation Radar picket, a radar equipped vehicle on picket duty; Picket boat, a small military boat; Picket (Polish: pikieta), a slang term to describe ...
Picket now refers to a unit (either naval or army) maintaining a watch. This may mean a watch for the enemy, [4] or other types of watch e.g. fire picket. This can be likened to the art of sentry keeping. [5] A staggered picket consists of, for example, two soldiers where one soldier is relieved at a time. This is so that on any given picket ...
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England.Originally established in 1922 as the British Broadcasting Company, it evolved into its current state with its current name on New Year's Day 1927.
The Grunwick dispute was a British industrial dispute involving trade union recognition at the Grunwick Film Processing Laboratories in Chapter Road, Dollis Hill in the London suburb of Willesden, that led to a two-year strike between 1976 and 1978.
The BBC Parliament ident, used between 2002 and 2009. BBC Parliament took over from the cable-only Parliamentary Channel on 23 September 1998. The channel's first on-screen branding featured the single line BBC Parliament logo over a background similar in style to water and accompanied by an orchestral musical score.
The picket was beaten unconscious and the policeman's baton broke in half. [18] In the BBC's report, filmed from the same vantage point, the footage was cut just before the policeman began beating the picket. [80] In 2014, a spokesman for the BBC claimed that the crew had "failed to record some of the violence due to a camera error". [81]