Precious cargo

That's it - the BBC Breakfast Celebrity Rolodex has been securely packed in bubble-wrap, treated with Smartwater, and is padlocked in an unmarked pantechnicon with discreet outriders on the M6, heading for MediaCityUK.

The first broadcast edition from Salford is scheduled for Tuesday, but all this week there have been two Breakfasts - the one the public sees, and parallel pilots from the new set. There have been moments when it's possible to believe the wrong one got switched to air - this was clearly the case when Steph McGovern did an Irish jig, and Sally Nugent said a bad word, and Des O'Connnor appeared.

We know the new presenter line-up - but what about the "friends" of the show ?  Will part-time GP and media medic Dr Rosemary Leonard be popping up from South London ? Will Paul Lewis, doyenne of Radio 4's Moneybox, be on the new sofa (shared with North West Tonight) with patient explanations of personal finance, trailing his show ?  And will the West-End theatre feature as much in the final half-hour ?  Time will tell...