When Jon Snow interviewed Foreign Secretary, Margaret Beckett, on our sister programme Channel 4 News earlier this week it caused a small tremor.
Beckett declared she was unhappy that a consignment of US bunker busting bombs destined for Israel were shipped through a British airport apparently without permission.
The interview featured prominently in the programme and was picked up the following morning by The Times, The Sun, the Daily Mail, The Guardian, the Daily Telegraph and the Today Programme among others.
Strange then that an edited transcript of that very interview posted on the Foreign and Commonwealth website was published sans the most newsworthy sound-bites.
So, in the spirit of co-operation and with an awareness of the dangers of RSI from too much transcribing we offer the following - missing - exchange:
JON SNOW: Foreign Secretary, are you happy to discover that bombs and rockets and missiles are being sent through Prestwick Airport from the United States to Israel?
MARGARET BECKETT: No I'm not happy about it, not least because it appears that insofar as there are procedures for handling that kind of hazardous cargo - irrespective of what they are - it does appear that they were not followed. I've already let the United States know that this is an issue that appears to be seriously at fault, that we will be making a formal protest if it appears that that is what has happened. We're still looking into the facts but I have already notified the United States that we are not happy about it.
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