[Spencer]

I don't think there has ever been a rule about not pre-recording the headlines, it used to be a very common practice, particularly when the inserts for each story were on physical tape.

Recording a whole bulletin would fall foul of the rules but the headlines is fine.

I know they used to record headlines, and maybe still do. But there aren’t headlines at this point – just a simple ‘Thank you, and welcome to Look North’ before the titles. It would seem that they’re possibly recording this and the intro to the first report from the tower screen.

Whether they’re supposed to do that or not, it doesn’t seem an especially complex sequence. So I don’t see why they’d need to pre-record it.