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DEVELOPING · 19 OCT → 25 OCT 2026 · 7 EDITIONS · 17 OUTLETS

Hundreds of schools receive hoax bomb threats across Northern Ireland and elsewhere in Europe

How this story moved: how many newsrooms carried it at each run, when each one picked it up, how our summary's headline changed, and which figures and names held from the first reports to the latest. Everything here is counted from the coverage; none of it is a judgement of anyone's motives.

OUTLETS CARRYING THE STORY, RUN BY RUN

0 8 17 20 Oct 21 Oct 22 Oct 23 Oct 24 Oct 25 Oct 19 Oct 13:42 UTC · Hundreds of UK schools receive emailed bomb threats treated as hoaxes 19 Oct 19:38 UTC · Hundreds of schools receive hoax bomb threats across Northern Ireland and elsewhere in Europe

HOW OUR HEADLINE CHANGED · 2 HEADLINES

  1. 19 Oct, 13:42 UTC

    Hundreds of UK schools receive emailed bomb threats treated as hoaxes

  2. 19 Oct, 19:38 UTC

    Hundreds of schools receive hoax bomb threats across Northern Ireland and elsewhere in Europe

WHAT HELD, WHAT CAME LATER

From the first reports to the latest

  • Northern Ireland · 2 outlets

Entered the story later

  • Nothing new took hold after the first third.