Carn, when the LDY-STN winter schedule was first loaded, the timings were so ridiculous it seemed inevitable that there would be significant changes.
Hopefully BE will come through with the announcements of EDI and LGW. In the same way FR seem to have brought with them some pax who used them at BHD, then BE could do the same (remember their posturing about making a "robust response" to WW's move to BHD?).
Either way, things are going just nicely at LDY at the minute. When you look at the CAA stats and compare LDY with BLK, HUY, MME, NQY and NWI, over the years LDY has overtaken all but NWI, and the stats for June brought LDY within a few thousand of that airport, so it could be only a matter of time for that too.
P.S. Any more word from your source ref: announcements from BE?