Another jolly wheeze from the Beeb that I have noticed, to make our licence £££s go a bit further:

Find a documentary programme being aired later in the schedule, and invent some tenuous connection with current news, then put in a few edited segments to pad out the coverage.

Example from today's lunchtime news:

It's been raining lately, and there are some flood warnings. So our announcer perkily tells us that we can see some previously unseen footage of the floods last summer. Clue several minutes of Mr Plod telling stupid motorists not to be stupid. How is 'police camera action' footage from last June news, pray?

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