[Stuart]

It's always been one of my favourite examples of ITN branding. Although the colour scheme dates it quite badly now, for the time it had quite a modern and futuristic design. I particularly like the lack of opening titles; instead it starts with the logo flying in across the images of the day's headlines. The theme music was good too - I'm a fan of those simple synthesised themes from the late 80s.

Of course, it evolved from the shortlived April 1988 rebranding of the News at 5.45. When the bulletin moved to 5.40pm in February 1989, the music was tweaked to remove the voice over and it got a better set with different camera angles rather than a straightforward CSO set-up.

Indeed, it evolved from the 5:45 upgrade, they changed the direction of the logo entry and for some reason dispensed with the 'spin/shrink' into the corner as well as the announcement, which was a shame.

The original 5:45 set wasn't entirely CSO, there were side shots showing some yellow panels when it was launched in 1976.

Oh . . . for the days of lovely short headline sequences.