The Yorkshire and Lincolnshire Thread

Central also done this on Tuesday. It was recorded on Monday in one particular school.

Granada Reports also mentioned it as coming up on the programme, but it was dominated by Hillsborough yet again.

London did their schools election debate today, presented by Nina Hossain. However it was a small part of the bulletin as they had some berk from UKIP on with Lucrezia Millarini.

You'd have thought ITV would make a half hour / hour long special out of them and at least knock a bit more off their regional programming quota.

Looks like Calendar's were recorded last Friday.

They were split versions for each half of the region by the way, Duncan hosted a debate at a school in Bradford whereas Christine hosted one at a college in Hull. (David Hirst and Clare Ashforth were in the studio) I suppose its best they were pre-recorded so they could be slotted in on a slow news day and moved to another day if there had been breaking news.

Whats folks thoughts on Claire Ashforth and David Hirst? Its like the D team these days! Wont be long before the likes of Michael Billington and Matt Price are presenting the main edition. I do like John Shires' style and little titchy Gaynor!

Look North with Nicola Rees and Ian White tonight, as Ian pointed out on Twitter, it's the first time he's done it with her.

Old vintage clip of Calendar from 10 years ago shown on Calendar tonight with Duncan looking younger, of course 10 years ago it was still the same set, just bright blue in those days.

It must be the first time he's done the main 6:30 program in several years?

He did a week or so a while back, maybe last Summer, which at the time was the first time he'd done any presenting at all for several years.

A lot of fuss was made about it by his Look North colleagues on Twitter at the time.

I see they are still name captioning the presenters on Calendar News, I'd like to think me mentioning it here was why it suddenly started happening again. Even name captioned 'John Shires' tonight.

David Cameron live on Calendar and Look North tonight. I wonder if he was truly live on Calendar as it's quite tight to get from one to the other in 10 mins.

Look Leeds seem to have followed the crowd by attempting to darken the newsroom background in their studio for the late news. Tonight, they've even wheeled out their old LCD screen from the 2006 set to sit behind the presenters, and they have somebody doing some camera panning/zooming.