Track the stories that go quiet.

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Most news trackers stop when the headlines do. Signal Tracker keeps a source-linked timeline running and records the silence - so you can answer “what happened since March?” in under two minutes.

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Thames Water debt restructuring

Active

Special administrator appointed by Ofwat16 Jun

Creditors submit rival £5bn rescue plan9 Jun

Bill increases of 40% approved by regulator2 Jun

Next check: Mon 23 Jun

Post Office Horizon IT compensation scheme

Monitoring

Compensation payments reach £200m total12 Jun

No tier-1/2 coverage - week of 3 Jun3 Jun

No tier-1/2 coverage - week of 27 May27 May

Next check: Mon 23 Jun

Hillsborough inquiry - phase 2 charging

Active

CPS charges announced against former officers10 Jun

Families respond to CPS consultation letter3 Jun

No tier-1/2 coverage - week of 27 May27 May

Next check: Mon 23 Jun

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Apple boss Tim Cook says prices to rise due to memory chip costs

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Memory price surge set to slow in Q3 as consumers hit affordability wall

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UK Weather: Developing heatwave to send temperatures above 30C

Active

UK's third heatwave of 2026 escalates: 35C+ temperatures hit sixth record day; hosepipe bans affect 5 million

14 followers

Former US attorney general Pam Bondi testifies in congressional Epstein probe

Active

Bill Gates testifies before House Oversight, calls meeting Epstein a "grave error in judgment"

10 followers

How it works

From story to timeline. Automatically.

Signal Tracker runs weekly, never misses a period, and tells you honestly when there's nothing new to report.

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Give it a title and the key entities - people, organisations, case numbers, places. Signal Tracker builds a search query pack automatically.

We watch it weekly

A Monday morning cron job executes each story's query pack, deduplicates results, and adds new coverage to the timeline with source links.

Silence is recorded too

When coverage dries up, the timeline gets an explicit gap entry. "No tier-1/2 coverage for week of 12 May" is data, not absence.

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Only significant new developments trigger an email. You'll know the difference between a wire repeat and an actual breakthrough.

BBC Panorama v News Group - Timeline

12 May 2025

MilestoneMaterial

High Court rules in favour of claimants

3 Mar 2025

Update

Witness statements submitted to court

10 Feb 2025

Gap

No tier-1/2 coverage - week of 10 Feb

14 Jan 2025

Update

Pre-trial hearing set for March

Story lifecycle

Silence is part of the record.

Every story moves through three states. Transitions are logged. Nothing is erased.

Active

Tier-1 or tier-2 coverage found in the last 30 days. Weekly ingest runs track every new hit.

Monitoring

No major coverage for 30+ days. Signal Tracker checks weekly and records each quiet period explicitly.

Dormant

Six consecutive empty weeks. We keep an eye open, but less frequently. Any new hit re-activates the story.

Active

no tier-1/2 for 30 days

Monitoring

6 empty weeks

Dormant

new coverage → Active

Active

no tier-1/2 for 30 days

Monitoring

6 empty weeks

Dormant

Active

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Monitoring

Dormant

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