A simple question

Hi teachers,
It is six o'clock on a very cold winter evening. All over England people are sitting down in their living rooms and are watching the news on television or listening to it on the radio. There is one very important piece of news this evening. It is this:
"In the West of England this evening, hundreds of policemen are looking for a man who escaped from Princeville Prison early this morning. The man's name is Coke.."

My question is: If I want the students to write the paragraph in the past and past progressive narrative tenses, should I include what the radio says?

For Example:
It was six o'clock on a very cold winter evening. All over Englan people were sitting down .. It was that: In the West of England that evening hundreds of policemen were looking for a man who escaped early that morning. The man's name was Coke.. etc.

Is it right just like that?

Thanks in advance