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JO
John
Kim Riley the chief reporter at BBC East is leaving today and according to the lunch time edition of Look East there will be a feature on him, on tonight’s Look East (east).
ST
South Today
John posted:
Kim Riley the chief reporter at BBC East is leaving today and according to the lunch time edition of Look East there will be a feature on him, on tonight’s Look East (east).


I am surprised we haven’t learnt what’s happening with Stewart and Susie yet.
MI
m_in_m
John posted:
Kim Riley the chief reporter at BBC East is leaving today and according to the lunch time edition of Look East there will be a feature on him, on tonight’s Look East (east).


I am surprised we haven’t learnt what’s happening with Stewart and Susie yet.

It is possible that they could share the programme and then no one would leave though they'd both appear less frequently.
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Ballyboy
Aren’t Stewart and Susie already sharing?
Last edited by Ballyboy on 21 October 2020 7:49pm
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Asa Admin
Wonder if rob smith is staying at SET?


Can we refrain from speculating about how may be taking voluntary (or forced) redundancy. Some of those reading these forums work inside the BBC, and are potentially facing losing their jobs. I can't imagine they'd appreciate people speculating over whether they will or should go.
RO
rob Founding member
Here's Kim Riley's farewell...

CO
Cold Open
Regional redundacies and cutbacks are of course also impacting plenty of people whom are unknown to us viewers, as their jobs are off-screen (e.g. reducing Inside Out to a handful of macro-regional versions, if that plan is still proceeding?).

Although the Harry Grations of this world were obviously never going to be there for the rest of eternity, I'd hitherto never imagined a scenario where a whole glut of such long-standing regional news legends would all be leaving virtually simultaneously. Sad times. Crying or Very sad
Last edited by Cold Open on 22 October 2020 9:48am
PA
Parker
Asa posted:
Wonder if rob smith is staying at SET?


Can we refrain from speculating about how may be taking voluntary (or forced) redundancy. Some of those reading these forums work inside the BBC, and are potentially facing losing their jobs. I can't imagine they'd appreciate people speculating over whether they will or should go.

Agreed, there is enough doom and gloom around in ITV, Sky & the BBC at the moment.
ST
South Today
Dave ''the chief'' Guest is to depart NWT this Friday.
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Ballyboy
Still getting over Flinders
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nwtv2003
Dave ''the chief'' Guest is to depart NWT this Friday.


Who himself reported on Stuart Flinders’ departure. Shame to see Dave go, he’s probably the longest serving on screen personality at BBC North West, and was their editor back in the late 1980’s.
DJ Dave and Ballyboy gave kudos
VM
VMPhil
Quite sad that Dave Guest is leaving, he's been there for as long as I can remember.

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