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 Streams, channels and schedules - it's all a bit unpredictable on BBC News right now. 

The UK version of the BBC News channel gets a by-election special, with Jo Coburn, from 0005 to 0400. The North America version of the BBC News channel stays with News and Asia Business report, vital stuff for Yanks, from Singapore. 

On the billings for the News and Sport service of Radio 5Live, no mention of the by-elections, and no change to the schedules on Radio 4.  On BBC2, sometimes home to news-y things, they're filling until 3.20am, when Nigeria play Canada in the Women's World Cup. To keep you in that sporting mood, they're showing the 2019 'bad-nanny' thriller, Lullaby.  The rationale is odd, when BBC2 and BBC News find it ok to take the Campbell phone-in from Radio 5Live for two hours every weekday morning. 

The World Service offers 'Barbie in space' after a five minute bulletin at midnight. Politics might creep into The Newsroom at 0200.   Will there be a 'live page' for the results on BBC News Online ?  Who knows ? How can you tell ?

Meanwhile,  BBC Local Radio, which, you'd think, might be interested in the results at least on Radio Somerset, Radio York and BBC London, will have to rely on management, freelances and non-union staff to keep listeners in touch - the NUJ is staging a 24-strike from 11am today.