The BBC style book may have been amended in that news readers now use the abbreviated "later" as in "Andy Coulson will be arrested later."
I think the mildly annoying part for the listener/viewer is not knowing approximately to what timeframe this "later" applies. Is it to be later today, later this week, later this month or later this year ?
At risk of being demonstrably over-sensitive and possibly qualifying for membership of pedants-are-us !