Expected 10-minute extension would increase competition with Newsnight and comes as rivalry with ITV heats upThe BBC is preparing to lengthen its flagship late evening news bulletin with an expected 10 minutes of regional coverage,creating an overlap with the beginning of Newsnight.
The perambulate follows a trial in the five months leading up to last Mays general election, during which regional news coverage was doubled to 15 minutes, and comes at a time when questions acquire been raised by ministers approximately whether the News at Ten should be competing head to head with its ITV counterpart.
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Source: theguardian.com