BBC breaking news in your favorite shell

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Crude yet working one-liner; Add to your favorite .rc file and Enjoy!

curl -silent -A=“BBC News 1.2.1 (iPad; iPhone OS 3.2; en_US)” http://cdnedge.bbc.co.uk/nol/ukfs_news/hi/front_page/ticker.json | awk -F “headline":” ‘{ for (i=2; i<6; i++) { split( $i, a, /,"/); print a[1] } }’ | sed ‘/^$/d’