Nope. Periods ALWAYS go inside of quotation marks. No matter what. You can check that out for yourself in the most recent edition of the Associated Press Stylebook. I'm pretty sure BBC follows AP style-- it's pretty much the industry standard. It's on page 335 of the Perseus 2002 paperback edition.
hey check it out the comment below. i was wrong. well, i was right (in terms of american english, and the style guidelines american journalists follow [ap]) but i was wrong about those crazy brits!
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Date: 2005-12-07 05:03 am (UTC)i'm sure a week or so later you really care. :-)
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Date: 2005-12-07 02:55 pm (UTC)Thanks.