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The BBC starts the day with its lovely opening sequence of shots of people and things starting their day, which segues into the Breakfast Time title sequence. Then Frank Bough appears at 6:50am, oddly to tell us the main headlines the Liberal/SDP Alliance won the Ryedale byelection, the Tories held Derbyshire West with a majority of just 100, and Labour swept the local elections.

Related reading: “Morning Glory: A History of British Breakfast Television” by Ian Jones and Graham KibbleWhite http://amzn.to/1jbSS13