[Radio_man]

It would be interesting to know what the budget is for the "new" UK version of the news channel - especially as 20 years ago ITV were said to be delivering their news channel for a fraction of what BBC News 24 cost at the time, and managing live UK news from early morning till late night, plus updates overnight, at that time.

Close to zero, I'd imagine. Given that it won't really be a channel at all - just a few opt-outs from World, which even then will be just simulcasts of existing output - I'd be really surprised if there were any sort of substantive budget. Of course there will be others here who know much more than I do.

Good call on the hourly bulletins - if ITV can do it on their website, surely the BBC can too. They could even use the studio and presenter on-duty for the planned UK-only breaking news service, if that is actually going to be a thing.

I'd agree, the UK version is essentially just the World version but with simulcasts of the BBC 1 weekday bulletins, Breakfast, and supposedly Nicky Campbell's 5 Live phone-in show (which I really hope is dropped as an idea). I can't see how any extra budget is needed for that.
There may be a very small budget available for the supposed UK-only breaking news service.