[Steve in Pudsey]

Doing the news junction locally makes total sense, as Leeds, Hull, Newcastle and Salford (NWT) need to announce different presenters.

I suspect the reason for BBC1 North not playing out the SuperLeague show is that the facility is primarily there to back up network, so Salford's NC1 needs to be playing out the network offering in case the W12 NC1 goes down during the opt out.

They don't need to staff three galleries to do that playout these days, although it's slightly surprising that they still play it from Leeds rather than an HD capable region.