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BBC Site Redesign - Initial thoughts on layout of article pages

Looking at the site redesign, the design and layout of the article pages appears odd with an excessive use of white space (180px +)  in the middle of the page - the main text is aligned to the left while the images, pull-quotes, tables, and other information areas are aligned to the right.  More importantly, this breaks the natural flow of the text on the page in terms of readability and means that valuable space for content has been wasted.  The overall layout itself does not look cohesive and although I generally like the use of white space, in this instance the 'gap' is too large and feels like a 'missing area' in the design. What are your thoughts regarding the article pages?

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