''BBC South East Today'' is the

BBC South East BBC South East is the BBC English region serving Kent, East Sussex, most parts of West Sussex and southern parts of Surrey. The BBC region was created in September 2001 by the joining of the Heathfield transmitter (formerly part of the BBC So ...

regional television news programme, serving

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East Sussex East Sussex is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in South East England on the English Channel coast. It is bordered by Kent to the north and east, West Sussex to the west, and Surrey to the north-west. The largest settlement in East Su ...

, part of

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and a small part of

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. Prior to its launch on 3 September 2001, most of the viewers in the region received ''

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'', though some had been receiving ''

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''. ''South East Today'' is produced and broadcast live from the BBC's South East Regional Production Centre in

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with district reporters covering

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and

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Overview

Launched on 3 September 2001, ''South East Today'' airs with short programmes and bulletins at varying times. The programme can be watched in any part of the UK (and Europe) on

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on the

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service. Launched with a sole main presenter Laurie Mayer, the programme was briefly the centre of a minor BBC scandal, after Mayer resigned amid accusations of management bullying. Mayer lost his case, but the managers concerned have since moved on. The show then became double-headed, with Beverley Thompson (formerly the programme's health correspondent) and

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presenting. In 2004, Geoff Clark joined the programme . Clark and Thompson presented the programme together for five years until their departure in September 2009. Long-serving weather presenter Kaddy Lee-Preston, who had been with South East Today since its launch left the programme in March 2012. The main presenter is Natalie Graham with weather presenters

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and Sara Thornton. The programme's editor is Quentin Smith and the sports producer is Ben Moore. Rob Smith left the programme in November 2020. The main transmitters that carry the regional news are Heathfield, Bluebell Hill and Dover, with associated relays including Hastings, Tunbridge Wells and Whitehawk Hill. As of 7 March 2012 (following

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), the Whitehawk Hill relay transmitter (which serves the

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area) now carries

output instead of BBC South, and the region extends as far west as

Worthing Worthing () is a seaside town in West Sussex, England, at the foot of the South Downs, west of Brighton, and east of Chichester. With a population of 111,400 and an area of , the borough is the second largest component of the Brighton and Hov ...

. In 2020, the weekday lunchtime bulletin of South East Today merged with that of BBC London News to join forces with the latest on COVID-19 as

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, hosted by the South East Today team in Tunbridge Wells. All other bulletins remain separate between the two regions.

Presenters

News

* Caroline Feraday (newsreader) * Claudia Sermbezis (newsreader) *

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(newsreader/cover presenter)

Weather

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(

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) * John Hammond (freelance) *

Former presenters

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(

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) *

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) *

Polly Evans Polly Evans is a journalist, broadcaster and producer and former anchor of the BBC regional news programme ''South East Today''. Career Evans started broadcasting while studying at the University of Leeds, working early morning shifts on the cam ...

The reason BBC South East news presenter Polly Evans has not been seen on TV recently
Surrey Mirror, 15 March 2017 *

Michael Fish Michael Fish, (born 27 April 1944 in Eastbourne, Sussex) is a British weather forecaster. From 1974 to 2004, he was a television presenter for BBC Weather. Career Educated at Eastbourne College and City University London, Fish was the longe ...

Kaye Forster Kaye Forster (born ) is a freelance weather presenter based at BBC East Midlands weather hub. Her usual role is providing weekday breakfast and lunchtime and weekend forecasts for the East Midlands, West Midlands and North West regions following ...

* Nazaneen Ghaffar (

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) *

Rachel Mackley Rachel Mackley (born 9 November 1982) is an English broadcaster. Mackley grew up in Yorkshire and read Fine Art at Newcastle University. Following university, she worked in public relations in Edinburgh, before embarking on a journalism career ...

Tomasz Schafernaker Tomasz Schafernaker (born 8 January 1979) is a Polish-British meteorologist who currently works for BBC Weather. Early life Tomasz Schafernaker was born on 8 January 1979 in Gdańsk, Poland, and attended school both in his native Poland and i ...

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) *

Rob Smith (journalist) Rob Smith is an English television presenter, who has been a co-anchor on the BBC ''South East Today'' news programme. Rob Smith and Polly Evans took over the co-anchor roles from Geoff Clark and Beverley Thompson in mid-September 2009. Career Smi ...

References

External links

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