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Newyddion must have done them for major national and international events, but for this story breaking at 11.18am if they have a bulletin at 12noon I don't think a newsflash is warranted. A bit different with the speech stations as it's content for them. I doubt the Global stations ran anything before the midday bulletin. I was travelling a bit yesterday with Radio 1 on - it wasn't mentioned in the headlines of the main 12.45 Newsbeat bulletin (I did switch stations after that though), but led the afternoon summaries.

IRN (Sky) certainly led with Drakeford at midday and 1, before moving onto COP28 later in the afternoon.

I can recall Newyddion breaking in to programming - think it was at the break point in the latter case - to go into obituary mode for Prince Philip and The Queen.

But that aside, I can't recall Newyddion ever running a newsflash - indeed, it wasn't that long ago that the most you could expect day-by-day was the main programme and a short bulletin somewhere in the evening.

One other thing RE Radio Wales - somewhat ironically, Rob Phillips was sitting in for Wynne Evans yesterday so would have been quite well placed to handle the breaking news. But they were locked into a 'Happy Hour' phone-in feature - and persisted with a song and a call before Peter Gillibrand finally chipped in with an improvised update.

Doesn't exactly give confidence to their news output when Radio Cymru were prepared and go with it there and then.