[ViridianFan]

I've been saying for years, but these days it's eminently possible to create good quality 'montage' skylines including a mixture of urban and rural landmarks from across each region. Would be so much better than the often non-descript one-city-centric backdrops they currently use, and is basically in the same spirit as English regional title sequences for the past two decades.

It's not exactly the same, but BBC World News' original NBH London backdrops were idealised montages - to the extent I expect even some on here didn't realise - so it's clearly doable.

If I remember correctly the North West Tonight back drop was an edited version of the view. I’m sure they’ve moved the imperial war museum so it’s in shot and removed the coronation street studios. 

I was watching the covid live feed on iplayer. I have to admit it took me by surprise the language and I’ve been known to through a few of those words in myself to wind up the odd friend or two. 

It does show you how easily the media’s attention can be caught. There’s hardly been any mention of Ukraine at all. What is going on it absolutely horrendous, that goes without saying, but the odd bbc one bulletin I’ve caught doesn’t feel correctly weighted. I’ve always felt the BBC one bulletins are to give you the main stories of the day without focusing for too long one on particular story. The news channel should be the place to spend longer on something or revisit it repeatedly.