Robert, love the flags stuff you've captured, I agree with you entirely, would have loved to have seen the flags extended to the rest of BBC News, they had great potential but sadly dropped before their time (don't know how they would have been adapted for the regions though). I've sent an email to Lambie-Nairn in the past asking for info about the creative thinking/inspriation behind the flags idea, never received a response!
Oh dear,
they almost had it, the studio looks great. The big videowall thing looks great, then the stuck the sidebar in.... big mistake.... It looks so out of place so not real, even my mum thinks its taky