BONG!
Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown will announce later that he will stand down as an MP at the next general election, the BBC understands.
I'm sorry but he won't announce it, you, the BBC, just fckin announced it.
Is anything actually announced any more? It seems that the media are briefed before any actual announcement from the individual themselves.
Gordon Brown steps up to the microphone and says "I have an announcement to make" to which the assembled media throng reply "yeah, we know, you're going to quit, your office briefed us last week"
True "Not News" in its perfect form.