[IanJRedman]

To be honest, your particular location is not the reason that that push notification is weird. The increasingly low bar the BBC has for breaking news alerts has become ridiculous and I know of many people who've just turned a once useful service off due to these kinds of notifications. I don't know why they do it, it only serves to irritate people and turn them away from using a BBC service (sometimes in favour of competitors (though many are equally poor on this front)). A breaking news alert should be for breaking news only - not for promotions, not for puff pieces and not for general news stories.

I’m sure in the early days of COVID these breaking news alerts only appeared rarely, and you knew it was something fairly big, they seemed to appear on average no more than 1 per day

Now they seem to appear about half a dozen times every single day, and sometimes it isn’t even News
“A minor cabinet minister is about to appear on Laura K’s programme, watch now”
“With strike action tomorrow, our reporter has all the latest”
“This week could be tough for the PM, says Chris Mason”
etc etc

I think there are two categories of breaking news notifications from the BBC News app: as well as the most familiar ones, which trigger a sound and vibration alert, there's also another option for less significant stories (in theory) - where a notification 'silently' appears in the menu, without any pop ups or alerts. In reality though, I've seen non-important stories appear in the first category, so they're not always used properly.