BBC London TV News

To make that clear, Clare is joining ITV London not BBC London.

So she is returning to her own stomping ground then, which is good news.

So presumably in such a situation like that (which I expect it was, given Ben had been on the One and NC with the story earlier that day) where London picks it up after the Six bumps it off its schedule, presumably one of BBC London's own stories gets axed to fit timings?

Though of course how far in advance London knew they'd get Ben Ando and the bleach story is another matter, if they'd known for some time then the said London story would presumably not have got much further than research stages, where as a last minute change could have resulted in a London reporter & crew being wasted?

Who has been presenting the weather in the mornings of this week? At the beginning of the week and today it was a girl I didn't recognise, Kate was on yesterday (she must be going off soon). Wendy hasn't been on this week in the mornings.

Running orders are continually adjusted right up until a news programme goes off air. It wouldn't necessarily have been a whole story that got ditched, there are many ways to add new items or drop others.

There are always a number of standby items that can be dropped - news programmes usually have a 'belt' of short stories in brief that are just 'cover' voiced over by the presenter... these are added and dropped as needed. The running order has a 'line' just below the off air point and there will be a number of standby items 'below the line' that can be moved up into the bulletin and vice-versa. In the case of regional news these are usually stories from adjoining regions - London might have package they've taken from BBC East or South East for example. These will be the first to be dropped but will be kept handy just in case

It's rare that a story that has been worked on on the day is ditched and never normally for timing reasons. Sometimes they won't make it to air for other reasons - the story goes away or there's not enough material to turn into a package, or there's a technical issue and it doesn't make it on time.

A story like the bleach one that was covered by the national news will be offered to the regional news, they don't have to take it of course. Whether they do would depend on how good a story it is or on how much they need it for the programme - if it's a quiet news day or they're particually poorly resourced that day then they'll be more keen on taking it.

That was Elizabeth Austen. I've noticed when whoever is usually on at the time isn't available they've started using recorded forecasts from the South East Today presenters-today it was Michael Fish. Wendy has only been on on Monday this week. Having said that,last week I was surprised to see Kate instead of Wendy on Thursday-apart from the fact that I can't recall seeing Kate on a Thursday for ages (if at all),her voice was almost gone and she's been posting that she had laryngitis for several days. I'm not starting another debate over whether pregnant women should or shouldn't be on tv but she clearly wasn't well and I don't think she should have been on.

With Wendy off for most of this week and SET providing cover, who did the weather updates on BBC London 94.9 during breakfast and mid-morning?

No-one,Matt Schofield was just reading the weather as well as the news.

Good to see BBC London News back at BH tonight.

They returned to BH on Sat, but yes, its good they are back - picture quality far improved compared to Millbank.

I didn't realise that as I don't watch the weekend bulletins in general. However, a friend of mine who watches on DSAT claims the picture from Millbank was better than from BH.

As a Freeview viewer, it's a marked improvement since they've returned.

Would suggest a visit to Specsavers for your friend... The cameras at BH are significantly better than those at Millbank (which look horrible). To be fair though, the lighting at Millbank was probably better in some cases.