[Worzel]

Guide dogs AGAIN! This is seriously getting beyond a joke now.

This could be a funny story for the newspapers to write about.
BBC replacing The Papers review with the same guide dogs piece night after night.
Let some journalist that covers the BBC News channels merger know about it.

Maybe its someone's humorous way of saying the channel's 'gone to the dogs' or comparing the first week's merger to a dog's hind leg.

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The 5 was once branded BBC Five O’Clock News with Huw Edwards on EPG and website. I guess it’s because normally the 1700 hour was most-watched on NC so they made a programme for Huw?

I think it was a response to Sky's then-newly revamped Live at Five programme with Jeremy Thompson. That had its own branding and agenda ('five more reasons to watch Live at Five', anyone?) so presumably the Beeb thought 'anything you can do, we can do better' and brought Huw in at 5pm, branding that hour like one of the network bulletins.

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Wasn't Deborah Turness at ITV News when the 2005 revamp took place and the ITV News channel started sharing much more in the way of network staff/presenters? With her now at the helm of BBC News I'm quite surprised a similar strategy hasn't been adopted?

Strictly speaking, it was David Mannion in charge when that revamp took place. You may have a point about Turness, though I don't know how much is up to her and how much may be overruled by people at the very top (or even people below her doing things under her nose!).

But Turness was Editor of ITV News at the time and would've had some input?