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At 6pm on talkSport on Wednesday 13th November, there was a 3 minute news bulletin and sports update. There were four news stories in the bulletin, and eight stories in the sports update. The first story of the news bulletin was a football story; FIFA have fined both the Football Association and Polish FA for the crowd trouble at last months World Cup qualifier at Wembley. Polish fans lit numerous flares, and one supporter invaded the pitch. The second story was a tragedy story; an MI6 worker who was found dead in a hole most likely fell in there himself and died as a result of an accident. It was previously thought he might have been murdered. A sound bite of an 'expert in confined spaces' was used, who believed he must have been assisted as he was found in a bag and cant have got in himself. The third story was a conflict story; a Racing pundit has lost his age discrimination tribunal with Channel 4 after he was dropped from scheduling last year. The fourth and final story is a story about Politics; Toronto's under-fire mayor Rob Ford, who recently admitted smoking crack cocaine when he was drunk, has admitted buying illegal drugs. He apologised, but denies being an alcoholic or drug addict.

In the sports update, the first story was a football story; Rene Meulensteen has been appointed as Head Coach of Fulham. This included an archive clip from earlier in the day from Dutch correspondent Marcel Van der kraan who talks about whether Meulensteen has been appointment in the long-term view that he will be the replacement for under-fire manager Martin Jol. The second story was also a football story; Aitor Karanka has been appointed as Middlesborough's new manager. The third story is a football story; Roy Keane said he is not trying to change peoples opinions of him by taking the Republic of Ireland assistant managers job. The fourth story is a football story; Steven Gerrard and Kyle Walker will miss Englands game against Chile through injury. The fifth story is a football story; Wales have called up three more replacement players for their friendly versus Finland. The sixth story is a football story; Uruguay win their first leg in their playoff tie versus Jordan for a place at the World Cup. The seventh story is a football story; Yaya Toure denies claims that he is thinking about leaving Man City. The eighth story is about Rugby Union; Greg Laidler will captain Scotland in their Autumn international versus South Africa.

The news values of these stories are:
News bulletin

Story One - Negativity - people have been fined, Continuity - was already in the pipeline that action might be taken.
Story Two - Continuity - story originally happened in 2010, Conflict - many people disagree on whether he was murdered or not.
Story Three - Continuity - he was sacked last year, Conflict - arguments between two groups of people
Story Four - Surprise - he is the mayor of Toronto, and is a role model and more is expected from him than behaviour like this, Scandal - how a mayor could behave like this and still be in the job he is in.

Sports update

Story One - Immediacy - has recently been appointed in his new job, Surprise - many people did not expect him to be given this job.
Story Two - Immediacy - has recently been appointed in his new job.
Story Three - Conflict - people argue as to what Roy Keane's reasons for taking the Ireland assistant managers job, Continuity - is part of a story that occurred a week before.
Story Four - Surprise - it was not expected that these two players would be injured and would miss the game.
Story Five - Surprise - it was unlikely that Wales would need to call up extra players.
Story Six - Predictability - many people expected Uruguay to win the match against Jordan.
Story Seven - Conflict - Yaya Toure responds to rumours that he wants to leave Man City, and denies it.
Story Eight - Immediacy - only happened recently