''BBC London News'' (referred to onscreen as ''BBC London'') is the BBC's regional television news programme for

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and its surrounding areas. Its local competitor is '' ITV News London'', which is produced by

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for

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. ''BBC London News'' is broadcast seven days a week on

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in London and the surrounding areas, with three-minute updates during ''

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'' and 15-minute bulletins after the '' BBC News at One'' and the ''

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''. The flagship programme airs between 6.30pm and 7pm each weekday after the '' BBC News at Six'' and is usually presented by

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. Weekend bulletins are broadcast on Saturday and Sunday evenings. Lateef became the main presenter of the flagship programme in March 2006, when she replaced Emily Maitlis who left to join the BBC News Channel and

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's '' Newsnight''. Weather forecasts are included within bulletins, presented by either Kate Kinsella or Elizabeth Rizzini. The weekday evening weather forecast is usually presented from the roof of the programme's production base at BBC Broadcasting House or at the location of an outside broadcast from earlier in the programme. Other forecasts are presented primarily from within the ''BBC London News'' studio or the BBC Weather studio. Originally broadcast from studios in Marylebone High Street, the programme moved to the newly built Egton Wing of

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in January 2013. Egton Wing was subsequently renamed John Peel Wing.

History

The programme launched on 1 October 2001 as BBC LDN after a major reorganisation of the BBC's South East region, with the London area splitting away to form its own separate region. The previous programme, ''

Newsroom South East ''Newsroom South East'' was the BBC's regional news programme aired on BBC One in the South East. It was launched on Tuesday 28 March 1989 as the successor to ''London Plus'', the South East's previous news programme. In 1992, ''South Today'' ...

'', had gradually decreased in its coverage as certain areas were switched to receive other regional news programmes. Following the launch of '' South East Today'', a brand new programme for the new South East region, ''Newsroom South East'' was effectively broadcasting solely to the London area for a short while before it became ''BBC London News''. During planning, the programme for London had been named ''London Live'', also at the time the name of the region's

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station; titles were produced by the Lambie-Nairn design agency but never shown onscreen. The eventual title became ''BBC London'', though the programme is always referred to by presenters as ''BBC London News'', while programme titles were originally ''BBC LDN'': an abbreviation of 'London'. The area created for the BBC London programme to broadcast to now covers a much more tightly defined area, chiefly Greater London but still including parts of

Bedfordshire Bedfordshire (; abbreviated Beds) is a ceremonial county in the East of England. The county has been administered by three unitary authorities, Borough of Bedford, Central Bedfordshire and Borough of Luton, since Bedfordshire County Council wa ...

Essex Essex () is a county in the East of England. One of the home counties, it borders Suffolk and Cambridgeshire to the north, the North Sea to the east, Hertfordshire to the west, Kent across the estuary of the River Thames to the south, and G ...

and

Hertfordshire Hertfordshire ( or ; often abbreviated Herts) is one of the home counties in southern England. It borders Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire to the north, Essex to the east, Greater London to the south, and Buckinghamshire to the west. For govern ...

in the

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region and parts of

Berkshire Berkshire ( ; in the 17th century sometimes spelt phonetically as Barkeshire; abbreviated Berks.) is a historic county in South East England. One of the home counties, Berkshire was recognised by Queen Elizabeth II as the Royal County of Berk ...

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Kent Kent is a county in South East England and one of the home counties. It borders Greater London to the north-west, Surrey to the west and East Sussex to the south-west, and Essex to the north across the estuary of the River Thames; it faces ...

Oxfordshire Oxfordshire is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in the north west of South East England. It is a mainly rural county, with its largest settlement being the city of Oxford. The county is a centre of research and development, primarily ...

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and

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in the South East England region. There is also some overlap with the editorial areas of other BBC regions in this part of England. Parts of

, Buckinghamshire,

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Northamptonshire Northamptonshire (; abbreviated Northants.) is a county in the East Midlands of England. In 2015, it had a population of 723,000. The county is administered by two unitary authorities: North Northamptonshire and West Northamptonshire. It is ...

and

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now take an opt-out of ''

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'', while most of Kent and

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has (since 2001) been covered by the BBC South East region based in

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, which produces ''South East Today''. In 2020, the weekday lunchtime bulletin of BBC London News merged with that of South East Today 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. On 18 October 2022 (coinciding the corporation's 100 years of broadcasting) BBC London News merged production teams with BBC News at 6 and 10 teams. This resulted in them moving to Studio B in Broadcasting House for those programs. Breakfast, lunchtime, and weekend bulletins continue to produce in a redesigned Studio D of the said building.

Satellite broadcast

The programme can be viewed throughout the UK (and Europe) on

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channel 974 on the

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service.

Presenters

News Presenters

* Victoria Hollins * Asad Ahmad * Riz Lateef * Alice Bhandhukravi * Sonja Jessup * Frankie McCamley

Weather

Georgina Burnett Georgina Burnett (born 7 December 1978) is an Australian-born British television presenter. Early life Burnett was born on 7 December 1978 in Sydney, Australia. When she was three years old, her family moved to the United Kingdom, settling in ...

* Matt Taylor * John Hammond

Former Presenters

* Emily Maitlis (1 October 2001- 24 March 2006) *Mike Ramsden (2001-2011) * Nina Hossain (2001-2004) *

Gillian Joseph Gillian Angela Joseph (born 20 July 1969) is a British newscaster currently working for Sky News. Joseph is the anchor of weekend editions of ''Sky News at Ten''. Early life She was born in 1969 in Coventry, England. Her parents originated fro ...

(2001-2004) *Matt Barbet (2003-2006) *

Samantha Simmonds Samantha Rose Simmonds (born ) is an English newsreader, television presenter and journalist. She was a news anchor for Sky News until July 2016. She returned to presenting for BBC News in March 2017. Early life Simmonds was born to an Iranian m ...

(2004-2005)

Travel

*Katie Allen

References

External links

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