In the 1980s and 1990s general cross-programme news themes were rare in the BBC. But not now! Since 1999 the same theme tune has been used across the News at 1, 6, 9 and later 10 o'clock.
Kirk Northrop sent us these written themes - most of the themes used on this page were beefed up and changed in 2003.
DUM bleep, bleep, bleep, [shh-ssss] bleep, bleep (tss) bleep DUM DUM [bleep] DUM hmmmmmaaaaa
BANG BANG dum dum dum, dum dum dum, dum dum dum, dum dum dum dum
<Repeat for as long as necessary>
DUM bleep, bleep, bleep, [shh-ssss] bleep, bleep (tss) bleep DUM DUM [bleep] DUM