How the BBC regions should be organised

I don't mind the term myself but there was some sort of 'heated debate' in the papers up here a while back from people who prefer to refer the areas in NE England as Northumbia and Yorkshire.

Pinch Herefordshire and north Gloucestershire from Midlands Today, pinch Oxfordshire from South Today and create South Midlands Today (from studios in the city of Oxford).

Then rename the Birmingham-based region as West Midlands Today .

i always understood that the reason for not changing the name to West Midlands Today in the early 1990s when the east midlands went it alone, was that there would be confsion between the West Midlands Region and the West Midlands County.

Even though 80% of the stories on the show are from the West Midlands County - having a name that recognises the fact wouldnt help matters. it would create a situation where the people in stoke etc would say we're not in the west midlands - we're staffordshire! plus the name Midlands Today is well known too.

Technically it should be called West Midlands Today, especially as there is an East Midlands Today.

West Midlands political region is:

Shropshire
Staffordshire
Herefordshire
Worcestershire
Warwickshire
West Midlands

It wouldn't make sense for Herefordshire to join a region for the south of the region. If there was a show from Oxford, we would see a likeness with the Carlton Central sub-regions. Maybe the BBC don't want to be seen to copy.

If there was a region for most of Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire, Berkshire etc. it would be most likely not be called 'South Midlands...' because there is not a poltical region called SOUTH MIDLANDS!!!!!!!!!!