BBC Ceefax, the world's first teletext service, has completed its final broadcast after 38 years on air. Before Olympic champion Dame Mary Peters turned off the last of the UK's analogue TV signals in ...

Long before we had internet newsfeeds or Twitter, Ceefax delivered up-to-the-minute news right to your television screen. Launched by the BBC in 1974, Ceefax was the world’s first teletext service, ...

And there were occasional mistakes. The most notorious occurred in 1994, when Ceefax accidentally launched a news flash announcing the death of the Queen Mother. Being first with the story was one ...

Before the emergence of Twitter and 24-hour online news, the main way of finding out what was happening in the world came via newspapers and the radio. But with the launch of the BBC's Ceefax – the ...

In 1994, a Ceefax newsflash wrongly broadcast during a rehearsal that the Queen Mother had died. The message was on screen for 30 seconds but was still seen by viewers and the BBC issued an apology to ...