[Steve in Pudsey]

Which has no relation to what they are using for the headlines in the Six and Ten. Staffing a full studio for just the headlines would be bonkers.

Would they need to fully staff a gallery just to do the heads? If London still has its own director, with the level of automation they should be able to run through two simple sequences by themselves. They probably need a floor manager for that time, but you might find that there's someone at a loose end at that time anyway. That way they could pre-record the headlines for B to play out, and it gives the director and presenter a chance to run through sequences before going on air to make sure they work.

If you were going to pre-record the heads wouldn't you do it in B? I'd have thought the easiest way to do it was like they used to do the news bulletin into Marr, just from a DTL position elsewhere in NBH rather than Salford.