[Robert Williams]

The ident are okay but nothing special.

However, I like the news safe ident and a question when did they start introducing news safe idents at Christmas (obviously after 2004 as the Boxing Day Tsunami news was introduced by children on bouncy puddings)

The first stand alone news safe ident, by which I mean one which wasn't simply a short edit of the main one, was 2008 (the year they were Wallace and Gromit themed).

There are earlier examples - for example, 1996's circus ident had a version without the characters:




My recording of the second ident is of a link into Newsroom South East - I'm not sure if it was used into the national news as well or if the clock was still used over the three days.

(The absence of the BBC logo in the first image I think was a one-off omission, as the logo was added live in those days).