[Stooky Bill]

Am I right in thinking that the relocation of the BBC News at One to Salford is to help meet "out of London" production quotas, which will be reduced due to the axing of Doctors, which is made in Birmingham?

When this was rumoured a few months ago (and discussed here) the idea was that it saves money as it's production would be combined with that of Breakfast. 

That has a production team and crew based in Salford just for Breakfast and there's a production team in London for the One o Clock News. By doing them both from the same location they can share production team and crew. That doesn't necessarily mean that someone will start at 4am and work through to 2pm (although that is only 10 hours so doable) but the rota will cover both programmes. 

That flexibility isn't possible now, they can't rota a producer on a shift in Breakfast on Monday and the One on Tuesday, the rotas are seperate.