[Andrew]

Certainly. There's always been a tendency among certain programmes and outlets to conflate 'analysis' and spending more time saying the same thing. Other than the biggest 'category A' stories, there's rarely any need to spend more than about 5/6 minutes on even lead stories.

There also seems to be a rule these days that if a story is big, it has to be covered at great length, or else the story isn’t seen as being covered adequately

So for example you’ll have the Ten being extended and all but 5 minutes will be covering the big story. Like you say that extra time will be filled with correspondent interviews, vox pops etc.

Obviously some stories are complex or have different angles and do need extra time, but if it’s straight forward you’d don’t always need 20 minutes.

I agree that making BBC News more like hourly network bulletins with the ability for more coverage as required would be better than this slow paced, spend 10 minutes on every story, format