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That is perhaps partly a legacy of the 1 being a NC-produced bulletin in the past and until the merger, so there is a smaller team of dedicated presenters for that bulletin than the 6/10 team.

In fact, most of the presenters in the pool of regulars at 1 are former NC faces who used to do both, but have been promoted recently to full time network roles - Ben Brown and Jane Hill, for example.

Maybe a bit, but I think it's more down to the fact that, until the Edwards debacle, Chakrabarti and Myrie were still also regular presenters on the One, but have now shifted to primarily the Ten, leaving the One pretty much the sole domain of Brown and Hill (and I seem to recall somebody suggesting Hill was only part-time these days?).

Basically, we now have the same number of shifts being filled by five presenters as were being filled by six before July - combinations of leave and illness, particularly over the summer, is going to mean there are a few extra slots where none of the regulars are available. This is also why Husain has been appearing a bit more regularly during the week recently.