[Steve in Pudsey]

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If they’d just run as normal for that 11 minutes into Huw at 10 it would have been immeasurably better.

It feels like it was as late decision for BBC One to join the News Channel, and they were already into the Presidential statement. I don't know if there is a facility in the news galleries to do a voiceover only on the output going to BBC One at short notice? That might have helped to soften the crash.

Or just given the CA a better script. "This is BBC One. We are interrupting Mrs Brown's Boys to join the BBC News Channel, where President Zuma of South Africa is making a statement about the health of Nelson Mandela."