ITV News: Rotas & Presenters

It's hardly annual leave either, on no Friday do they have four different presenters for the national evening and late bulletins. So it's not that big a deal if three out of the five main presenters are not on duty. Every Friday is like it, be it Mark and Mary, Mary and James, Natasha and Marsh, Julie and Alastair or even James and Julie presenting.

Well they might not plan it that way, but how do you know Mark and Julie hadn't booked time off, but then Mary developed tooth ache today and had to take a day off?! For God's sake, there are hundreds of reasons why a person might be off work - why does it need to be discussed on a TV presentation forum?!

I, of course, didn't see it. But it sounds like quite a good team for News at Ten, IMO. Natasha and Alastair.

And, let's not forget either that Alastair has been presenting News at Ten for almost thirty years! So, I think he may just about qualify to stand in for Mark Austin.

For once I'm glad Alastair and Natasha are getting paired together more often, I used to like it when it was Mary and Alastair all the time, but Natasha and Alastair seem to work very well together, and hopefully this continues.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qT5GPn75Jo&feature=youtube_gdata_player


Good Lord. ITN News with Sonia Ruseler. I'd forgotten all about her. (last few moments of the clip though).

Last seen on BBC World News America!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFU0zMQefXI

Good grief, I didn't know she was still kicking about! She's certainly aged well. Last I knew she was working for CNN in Washington.

Wikipedia suggests she left there in 2001 and is now a vice president of a company - think the World News America thing was a one-off cover, she's not done it since that week.

Who did today's 5:30??

**sorry didn't mean to post twice, phone and network playing up**

It was Faye Barker today

Was it Faye Barker today?