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DrewF
I thought the same about Amy Garcia who seemed to go from occasional fill in presenting to main programme quite quickly. It doesn't seem to take much before they look quite short staffed lately.

There seems to be a lot of politics surrounding who can present what at Look North, for example Ian White and Clare Frisby. On Calendar there seems to be more flexibility.

It's Harry's last Look North tomorrow before he goes to do the Olympics, I presume we will have Phil Bodmer filling in for 3 weeks in his absence.


Well it's not often Christa is off - in fact she seems to barely take any time off at all! Excluding that month or so a while back when she disappeared.

You're right, there does seem to be a lot of politics. I never ever understood the decision to remove Ian White, a very familiar presenting face of 11 years, from any sort of presenting duties. Phil Bodmer is alright but I'd much rather see Ian White back on the sofa filling in, even on the other updates. They sometimes even drag in Tom Ingall from Sheffield instead!
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Andrew Founding member
Tom Ingall did all 3 days on the weekend shift this weekend just gone which was unusual.

It is odd how many of the other reporters do occasional presenting such as Tom Ingall, but Ian White who used to be a main presenter is seemingly excluded completely and they would probably single head or have 2 women hosting instead.
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Steve in Pudsey
Tom Ingall has presented for a long time - he was one of the few who could press the buttons in the self-op at Woodhouse Lane.
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Andrew Founding member
He's only ever been relief though, doing odd days at a time. I wonder if he's ever done the main programme.
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DrewF
He's only ever been relief though, doing odd days at a time. I wonder if he's ever done the main programme.


He did a few weeks ago - sort of - when Harry and Christa were on location. He did a fair chunk of the program from the studio on his own.
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radiolistener
He's only ever been relief though, doing odd days at a time. I wonder if he's ever done the main programme.


He certainly did a lot of the main programme presentation prior to the 'corporatisation' of the show.
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excel99
It's Harry's last Look North tomorrow before he goes to do the Olympics

What's he doing there? I presume he is there for BBC Sport rather than Look North?
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radiolistener
It's Harry's last Look North tomorrow before he goes to do the Olympics

What's he doing there? I presume he is there for BBC Sport rather than Look North?


He twitted recently that it's his sixth Olympics.... and his last.
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radiolistener
Good grief, Ian White on the Levy Show this evening, reporting on, er, the M62 crash near Bradford.
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salceyboy
Second day in a row that Ian White has been on Look North Hull and the third day in a row that that there has been a West Yorkshire story on the programme.
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Steve Founding member
I thought Nicola was good tonight
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DrewF
A bit of chat between Huw Edwards and Harry Gration:

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Nice to see Harry Gration getting some recognition from fellow BBC presenters - Joanna Gosling and Ben Brown have talked to him as if he's a last minute stand in!

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