[Rolling News]

For perhaps the first time since the merger, between 9am and 1pm there was a proper four hours of UK-only, non-simulcast content on the news channel in the UK. Despite being presented from the single locked off position on the balcony and lacking some of the finesse that the old news channel had, it was a far superior product to what the new, combined channel frequently offers.

There was good rolling coverage of events in Nottingham, with a reporter on the ground anchoring much of the coverage of that story, plus excerpts from two separate Select Committees, PMQs (without taking a single second of Politics Live’s coverage!) and some statements in the House of Commons after too. It wasn’t perfect - apart from a brief sting at the 9am TOTH there were no headlines, titles, breaks for the weather etc, and it felt like they lingered on some of the select committee coverage for a bit too long. But it did feel much more like the news channel of old, and it’s shame that that’s such a rarity.

Possibly the first time since before Covid we've had 4 hours of UK rolling news between 9-1am on a weekday. Heck, probably even the first time since before the Victoria Derbyshire show launched in 2015.