[JMT1985]

I was told by someone who worked in the BBC News Centre in 1999, that Studio N6 had to accommodate two news sets in the weeks leading up to the May 1999 relaunch.

He said the new BBC News set was built into the studio alongside the 1993 set which was moved into N6 in 1998.

He told me it was quite a squeeze, but he said due to the virtual computer generated nature of the 1993 look, viewers wouldn't notice that another set was squeezed into the small studio - he said the newsreader could see the new set behind the cameras.