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youtu.be  - George Alagiah's 12PM edition which would later become 'GMT' before being replaced by 'LIVE'

That was a BBC edit using elements composed by David Lowe. It sounds to me like the main TOTH vamp mixed with the coming up vamp. That was tidied up shortly afterwards. David Lowe created some short loops and a thunderclap that the BBC then used to make the WNT vamp (that lasted until the May/June? 2007 WNT rebranding). One of the loops was also used to create the quarter heads vamp that was used on BBC World from 2007-08.

youtu.be  - Zeniab Badawi's 7PM edition seen in the UK on BBC4 of course. It never got rebranded, but hasn't aired since the pandemic

youtu.be  - Another 12PM edition, this time with Jonathan Charles and a completely different headlines bed.

I think those were David Lowe originals. The BBC4 version of WNT always had different music to the other versions.

The BBC actually edited quite a lot of Lowe's music between 1999 and 2008. For instance, the BBC World 2002 vamps weren't mixes by Lowe himself. He'd provided various elements, but the BBC did quite a lot of remixing of their own. I also remember Lowe didn't provide a closing vamp for the April 2007 BBC1 bulletins relaunch, so the BBC just chopped the thunderclap off themselves. In those days the music was presumably sent to the BBC on CD (or maybe DAT in the very early days) and I guess it was easier for the BBC to edit extra tracks themselves than to get Lowe to compose them and send them on CD again. Once file transfer became more of a possibility, more and more of the music used has been created by Lowe himself. I think it's fairly rare now for the BBC to edit tracks themselves, although I still think it happens on occasion.