Newscopter alert: Both Sky News and BBC News scrambled their helicopters to follow Gordon Brown's five-minute trip from Downing Street to Buckingham Palace to ask the Queen to dissolve parliament. With the general election ball now officially rolling Monkey expects more footage from the news choppers. Oh and of course the obligatory story in the Daily Mail about the cost to licence fee payers of the Beebcopter.
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