Sky News

Must say I criticized them for giving Jayne Secker big slots such as News At Ten but I was very impressed with her on the press preview over the last half hour, she seemed very personable and engaged with Tim Walker, certainly handling it much better than some of the other presenters on the books at Sky. Perhaps I was too hasty in my judgement of her.

I agree but at the same time she will never be a flagship presenter gaining her own slot full time although she is a top quality stand in

LOL Sky just showed yesterday's weather forecast with Jo (Sunday 12pm onwards) instead of today's with Lucy. They let it play out in full despite the error. The dangers of pre-recording...

Elsewhere Lauren Taylor (previously of ITN, Al Jazeera) is fronting the business news today.

She has far improved since being at ITV News. I remember her moving to Doha to present Al Jazeera at launch, and was presenting for Al Jazeera in London last weekend.

She could replace one of the current Sky lot, who don't seem to be going anywhere at the moment, especially the evening lineup of presenters.

I'm shocked she left her prominent position on AJE, presenting from Doha.

I think shes freelance though, as she presented the London bulletins a few days ago. She was very good on Sky this afternoon though, much improved since her ITV days.

When the clocks change it happens at 1am GMT.
Because BST is an hour ahead of GMT between the last Sunday in March and the last Sunday in October, the change happens at 2am technically you go from 1:59:59 BST to 1:00:00 GMT.
The concept of British Summer Time is meaningless outside of Britain so I don't know what "reports" you are referring to.

There is a reason for why such a change occurs at such an unGodly hour of the morning, 1am, but I forget what it was.

Can anyone explain the Mark Kleinman promo to me?

There's the pile of earth. Dug themselves into a hole?

The wardrobe. Skeletons in closets?

The washing line. Hung out to dry, or dirty laundry in public?

Only seeing Kleinman's reflection. No ideas on that one.

While British Summer Time might be meaningless outside Britain, the concepts of adjusting clocks by an hour in Spring and Autumn is fairly (totally?) widespread. Central European Time (GMT+1) adjusts to Central European Summer Time (GMT+2) for example. The concept of Daylight Saving Time is fairly well known.

While checking this post I found reference to Dublin Mean Time - abolished in something like 1916, which put Southern Ireland 25 minutes behind GMT! How bizarre is that? ISTR from GCSE History lessons that until the railways came and a ntaional timetable was required, places like Bristol would be 8 minutes behind London, but I didn't know about the Dublin thing. According to Wikipedia, there are many places with off-the-hour timezones. Caracas is UTC-4:30, Tehran is UTC+3:30, Delhi is UTC+5:30, Kathmandu is UTC+5: 45 (that has to be the oddest), Adelaide and Darwin are UTC+9:30.

ISTR the Delhi thing is why Asia Today (1430GMT?) on BBC World always had to start on the half hour precisely (whereas other back-half hours didn't start at any specific time...) to meet their top of the hour...

All of Europe switches at the same time, so the term "British Summer Time", even though it's commonly used, is a bit misleading.

But BST is NOT the same as CEST, so therefore it's use is not misleading. In the UK we switch from GMT to BST whereas in continental Europe the switch is between CET amd CEST. (and vice versa)

Just on MArk Kleinman, Im just wondering what people think of the new city editor. I personally think he comes across poorly on screen. He doesn't speak with fluency and you cannot tell when he is finished or half way through a sentence, although he does seem to have some good sources.

Doesn't it remind you of a certain business editor on another channel? Although saying that, Robert Peston has improved quite a lot since he began on the BBC.

It does seem though that Sky News are trying to big up Mark Kleinman as being their version of Robert Peston, getting all the big business and economic scoops, but in actual fact what he comes up with seems rather dull. The breaking stories he has got and reported on are rather boring and not particlarly important, and only being flagged up with the seriousness that they are in an attempt to build Kleinman's profile. It seems a bit desperate at times.