[Stooky Bill]

I don't think it should be at the expense of regional news and especially considering ITV Evening News is an hour long normally so they could have had the breaking news, done the rest of the stories at 6.30pm then done the regional news at 7pm. I would guess that ITV London sharing a studio would be an issue though since they normally prerecord the last bit.

Yes I agree. As someone who has worked in regional news it's not great when the programme you've planned for and worked on all day gets dropped or reduced

I imagine it's a lot to do with the logistics and scheduling of ITVs regional news. They had to broadcast the news at 6 and that's when the regional news was scheduled - that's unfortunate timing. The fact that some of them are recorded and one uses the same studio complicates things a lot