The Yorkshire and Lincolnshire Thread

And Penny was also a roving reporter for a week on Railwatch in 1989!

And presented Weekend - the BBC East/BBC South and East combined show on Friday nights - which also featured Fiona Phillips as a travel presenter ISTR?

Penny had moved from London Plus to Look East ISTR so was a familiar face to both regions?

(In the 90s the Penny Bustin/Stewart White/Kim Riley presenting line-up on Look East was incredibly strong. Penny left Look East to work in the charity sector, then returned to broadcasting in Leeds, I think via academia)

You mention Penny Bustin to folk in the eastern counties and they still remember her. Surprising as Stewart and Susie have been the main duo now for 22 years.

Her career highlight must be when reporting for Look North on some public toilets that had won an award, and managed to shoehorn "Bustin to spend a Penny" into her outcue.

Understandably so - the Stewart, Penny and Kim combination was a very strong line-up (even though, at the time, Anglia News was at the top of its game and also providing very strong competition)

I'd wager a lot of people in Yorkshire similarly also remember Judith Stamper who must have left Look North around the same time.

Much earlier I would have thought?

I moved to Yorkshire in 1994, and she was still on Look North then. At a guess I'd say she left in 1995, so that'd be 23 years.

I have a video of her presenting in June 1995, apparently Sophie Raworth joined in May 1995 so it can't have been much longer than that.

Do the other ITV regions news programmes rotate their presenters daily as often as Calendar?

No South version of Calendar for some reason tonight - but it didn’t seem like the programme was meant to be pan-regional, despite focusing heavily on remembarance. Most the programme had the Leeds backdrop (until changing to the generic one towards the end of the programme, like they usually do) and had no South stories. The weather was the West map too.

EDIT: Seems like something went wrong as there was certainly meant to be a separate South edition judging by this tweet

'Coming Home' - the installation at ⁦@HullMinster⁩ to mark a hundred years since the Great War ended. On ⁦@itvcalendar⁩ south at 6 pic.twitter.com/aNlMWh0tfR

— Katie Oscroft (@katieoscroftitv) November 9, 2018