No 0627 or 0657 BBC LDN bulletin

No BBC LDN bulletin on BBC Breakfast at 0627 ... we got BBC South Today instead with a little welcome to BBC London viewers. Wonder what went wrong at LDN?
Must be something serious as no 0657 either.
Was back at 0727

At least Surrey viewers of BBC London actually got a local story at 0627 and 0657, (the car crushing for road tax dodgers) so that was a plus !

Newscaster overslept.........................???????? It's happened before, as I am sure Denis Norden has told us thousands of times.

Didn't see Breakfast this morning, but was South Today presented by Stuart Norvell?

John

Yes !

It's happened before - IIRC at the launch of the new Breakfast set during 6.27 and 6.57 (and maybe 7.27) we Londoners got South Today although I don't know why we get that - surely South East Today would make a better 'backup'...

I suspect there are more lines between Southampton and London than there are lines between Tunbridge Wells and London - therefore it's easier to get South Today routed to the Breakfast gallery for situations like this. Mind you, it also may be for purely historical reasons. Before the current South East region was created, South East was a huge patch covering the regions now known as London, South East and Oxford (I think). Therefore, if Elstree (the old home of the South East regional production centre) was not available, the nearest alternative was Southampton.