[Former Member 406]

I presume this was the 'live' one from Bristol this lunchtime, otherwise they would have just edited out the faux pas.

I'm sure that pre-recorded ITV sub-regions are done (A) "as live", and (B) as shortly before their broadcast as possible. So the chances of an edit are precisely zero, I'd have thought. And it's not as if what happened was like the presenter evacuating their bowels on the desk or anything.

Even if the "Plymouth" edition had been the pre-recorded one, it'd be more trouble than it's worth to try and edit out those couple of seconds of the presenter looking at their script during the small window of time between the end of the pre-recording and the start of the pre-recorded bulletin then being broadcast. Also, it would have the knock-on effect of making the bulletin under-run slightly, so there'd end up being e.g. a pregnant pause on the copyright endboard at the end of the bulletin or something.