By Sky News Editor James Jordan

I've been covering the trans-Atlantic plane bomb plot at Woolwich Crown Court on and off for the past 10 days - but I have yet to see the inside of the courtroom.

It's not because I'm skulking around outside enjoying the fresh south east London air, it's because I've been sent to the annexe.

Not some terrible punishment chamber but a prefab building set up for the hoards of media from around the world unable to fit inside courtroom three.

Sky has got three passes one for the actual court, two for the annexe.

And because it's my job to co-ordinate the lives and talk to the newsdesk and because I need to nip in and out of the building, it's the beautifully appointed annexe for me.

Set outside the actual court building but still within the imposing 8ft-high fence, the annexe comprises two prefab buildings pushed together.

At the front are six giant TV screens relaying the scene from inside the court and displaying evidence.

Gazing up at these are the journalists from every type of media and from every corner of the world.

Well, that's not quite true anymore.

Now that the opening of the trail is over and we are hearing the evidence in minute detail, the numbers of reporters down here has dropped off dramatically.

I'm here with three other reporters in a room designed to hold about 70 people.

The guard whose job it is to take our mobile phones off us and generally keep order in the annexe has gone from run-off-his-feet to somewhat underemployed.

It's easy with the press room so empty to forget why we're here.

But when you remember the eight men sitting in the dock are accused of plotting to blow up passenger jets causing the deaths of thousands the stark details of the prosecution case really hit home.

The trial continues and all the men deny the charges.

My only hope is that over the next few months I might actually get into court to see the drama unfolding with my own eyes.