[Kojak]

It's not a half hour shift, though, is it? The presenters are in the building several hours beforehand to prepare for the One. Much of what they read from the autocue, they write themselves. They will also be liaising continually with reporters to coordinate any live crosses. I do agree that it would be good if they stayed on for a couple more hours and helped provide some form of UK-only rolling news - but I also accept that the capacity for that may not be there at the moment.

Poor wording there on my part - should have said on-air shift s wasn't the 1 usually paired up with the 5 or sometimes the 9-11 shift.

A shame that with London now in B it wouldn't be possible but even having the 1/6/10 stay on air for the rest of the hour would add some content, rather failing that an overnight style UK headline summary leading up to the top of the hour.

Often the One was paired up with another shift - for pretty much all of March the 1 team presented/produced the 5pm hour (that went out worldwide) and quite often before that, the 2-5 NC shift. (The latter happened much more than you might think - as far back as 2007, in fact! There was a phase where Sophie Raworth would stay on after the One, usually on a Monday, and co-present the afternoon shift on News 24. On those days the One would come from N8, rather than N6.)