Ah true, I'm not close enough with the detail of some of the subdomains to know what's going on there. A few years ago a decision was made that the BBC site sh

Ah true, I'm not close enough with the detail of some of the subdomains to know what's going on there. A few years ago a decision was made that the BBC site should be all under www.bbc.co.uk, I believe this was mostly for marketing purposes, but also to simplify our internal routing for the site. news.bbc.co.uk was previously separate as News had it's own infrastructure separate from other parts of the BBC, but that's been rationalised now (leaking subdomains for technical reasons was something we frown upon).