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Indeed, if they ever went down the merging the Ten and Newsnight route, having three 'newshours' with different focuses would be quite a smart way of doing things - something like, 'the latest on stories across the UK' at One, 'the stories that matter to you' at Six and 'reporting and analysis on the main UK and world news' at Ten.

I strongly suspect Newsnight will be next in the firing line, sadly. When Kirsty Wark eventually steps down, I can see that giving the BBC a very good excuse to 'review' Newsnight, and we all know what that means! If this were to happen, I think an extended Ten isn't an entirely bad idea. You could also put a parliamentary review at the end, to run on the News Channel in place of the regional news.