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It would appear breakfast bulletins are from Leeds too. At least watching here in Yorkshire, there was a story about Teesside airport, so I’m assuming this was for the benefit of NE&C viewers.

Could this all be to do with the work on the new set? Maybe its launch is imminent.

Newcastle has been on a temporary set for the last few weeks. This doesn't explain why Sunday's bulletins didn't appear as planned. The disappearance of the late edition was definitely a last minute technical failure as there wasn't even time to arrange an opt to any different region.

Regions will get London by default if they do not opt. The BBC NE&C transmitters did opt out of BBC 1 London on Sunday night but given they switched to the News channel this switch must have happened somewhere other than Newcastle. The Newcastle gallery does not have a quality feed of the News channel to switch to.