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's national news programme on
BBC One
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at the weekend and bank holidays, although it is often referred to on guides simply as ''BBC News''. It is called ''BBC Weekend News'' on all bulletins, apart from the late bulletin on Sunday where it is named
BBC News at Ten
''BBC News at Ten'' formerly known as the ''BBC Ten O'Clock News'' or the ''Ten O'Clock News'' is the flagship evening news programme for the BBC News channel and British television channel BBC One on weekdays and Sundays at 10:00pm. Huw Edwa ...
. The programmes are simulcast on the
BBC News Channel
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, unless it clashes with the edition of ''
World News Today
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'' at 9:00pm or a major news story is being covered on the News Channel.
Format
''BBC Weekend News'' airs three times on both Saturday and Sunday, and is also used as the title of the BBC News Channel simulcast on Sunday mornings during August when
The Andrew Marr Show
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The programme replaced the long-running '' Breakfast with Frost'' as the network's flagship Sunday talk show when D ...
doesn't air. The main three bulletins are presented in the studio in a similar format to other national news bulletins on
BBC One
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but are shorter in length.
The lunchtime bulletin is normally at 1:00pm although these times often vary. The programme lasts approximately 15 minutes including the sport and is immediately followed on
BBC One
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by a weather forecast on Saturday and Sunday.
The evening bulletin contains a sports update from the BBC sports centre in Salford, and is at 6:00pm on Saturday and Sunday depending on scheduling. It is followed by regional news.
The late bulletin contains a sports update from the BBC sports centre in Salford, and is at 10:00pm on Saturday and Sunday depending on scheduling. There is a
BBC One
BBC One is a British free-to-air public broadcast television network owned and operated by the BBC. It is the corporation's flagship network and is known for broadcasting mainstream programming, which includes BBC News television bulletins, ...
regional news after the Sunday late news on
BBC One
BBC One is a British free-to-air public broadcast television network owned and operated by the BBC. It is the corporation's flagship network and is known for broadcasting mainstream programming, which includes BBC News television bulletins, ...
.
Presenters
Lunchtime
The lunchtime bulletin is presented by the on-duty
BBC News Channel
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presenter during the scheduled bulletin.
Maxine Mawhinney was the long term presenter from 2006 until 2015. Following a reshuffle, ''BBC News 24'' launch presenter
Gavin Esler
Gavin William James Esler (born 27 February 1953) is a Scottish journalist, television presenter and author. He was a main presenter on BBC Two's flagship political analysis programme, ''Newsnight'', from January 2003 until January 2014, and pr ...
became the main presenter until his departure from the channel in early 2017. Mawhinney briefly returned to the role until her departure in April 2017 and
Shaun Ley
Shaun Dominic Ley (born 14 June 1969) is a British journalist and newsreader for BBC News. A former regular presenter of ''The World This Weekend'' and ''The World at One'' on BBC Radio 4, he currently appears regularly on the BBC's domestic BBC ...
took over afterwards. Following the
COVID-19 pandemic
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in spring and summer 2020, the main presenter of the Saturday bulletin was
Carrie Gracie
Carrie Gracie (born 1962)Ben Dowel"Carrie Gracie profile: Award-winning journalist with years at World Service" theguardian.com, 12 May 2009 is a Scottish journalist and newsreader best known as having been China Editor for BBC News.
She resign ...
and the Sunday presenter normally continued to be
Ben Brown. On 25 August 2020,
Carrie Gracie
Carrie Gracie (born 1962)Ben Dowel"Carrie Gracie profile: Award-winning journalist with years at World Service" theguardian.com, 12 May 2009 is a Scottish journalist and newsreader best known as having been China Editor for BBC News.
She resign ...
announced that she had left the BBC.
From then,
Shaun Ley
Shaun Dominic Ley (born 14 June 1969) is a British journalist and newsreader for BBC News. A former regular presenter of ''The World This Weekend'' and ''The World at One'' on BBC Radio 4, he currently appears regularly on the BBC's domestic BBC ...
returned as the main host on Saturdays (alternating with
Geeta Guru-Murthy once every 4 weeks). However, Ben Brown continued to present the programme every Sunday. ''On
Saturday 24th April 2021, the
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rolled out a new repetitive presenting rota for the newsreaders - lasting for 4 weeks before it starts again.''
Current presenters
Relief presenters include; Luxmy Gopal,