BBC News: Presenters & Rotas

Do remember that Simon McCoy has said he won't be having any more early starts, which suggests he's leaving the 8.30-11am shift altogether.

It was his attempt at some humour...

http://twitter.com/simonmccoy/status/417939246175899648

This is the value of having the Tweet embedding functionality - posting the Tweet means that there's less chance of it being misinterpreted.

Never again in 2013 will I have to get up at a ridiculous time of the morning! #Hurrah

— Simon McCoy (@SimonMcCoyTV) December 31, 2013

(Incidentally, it doesn't work unless it's https)

I couldn't help but notice that the BBC's Los Angeles Correspondent Alastair Leithead is reporting from South Sudan in Africa.

A big change of scenery, does this happen a lot with reporters moving from one position to another temporarily?

His twitter account does say that he is the former Africa correspondent.

I remember he used to be based in Afghanistan and that is probably the most dangerous place in the world. So he's used to these sorts of places.

How are we going to Carrie on?

Her send off was excellent! The funniest thing about it was seeing Thomasz S running in the newsroom behind to try and get to the studio on time!

Here are the final few moments of Carrie on the News Channel - I've got more later, with clips from throughout the morning.

Was a very nice farewell (though not entirely sure why Adam and Sophie were in the studio!) Lots of behind the scenes photos from the morning on Twitter too.

I guess Adam and Sophie were there because they had to be in position to present the news literally 2 minutes after Carrie had said goodbye! Next shift.

I would have them all at the desk for every shift change, they can recap the top news stories and chat about what's coming up.

Here's a video of clips from the rest of Carrie's final morning on the News Channel.