BBC London News

BBC London News (referred to onscreen as BBC London) is the BBC's regional television news programme for the English region encompassing London and surrounding suburbs. Its local competitor is ITV1 London's London Tonight, which is produced by ITN for ITV London.

BBC London News is broadcast seven days a week on BBC One in Greater London and the Home Counties, with short bulletins during BBC Breakfast, after the BBC News at One, and after the BBC News at Ten. The flagship programme airs between 18:30 and 18:55 each weekday evening and is usually presented by Riz Lateef. Weekend bulletins are broadcast on Saturday lunchtime and early evening and on Sunday evening. Lateef replaced Emily Maitlis who had been the main presenter of the flagship programme from launch until March 2006, when she left to join BBC News Channel and BBC Two's Newsnight.

Weather forecasts are normally provided by former BBC national forecaster Peter Cockroft, during the weekday evening and late bulletins, or Wendy Hurrell, Kate Kinsella or Elizabeth Rizzini during BBC Breakfast, lunchtime and weekends (when he is absent one of them or another BBC Weather forecaster presents from the BBC's Weather studio at Television Centre). During the summer season the forecast is normally presented from the roof of the programme's production base at BBC Broadcasting House which is also the home of BBC London 94.9 radio station, but Cockroft is also seen from venues of some of the events or outside broadcasts on the programme.

BBC London moved from Marylebone High Street to the new Egton Wing of Broadcasting House in September 2009, and the first edition of the programme in its new home was broadcast on 28 September 2009. BBC Arabic Television also broadcasts from the building and all BBC News bulletins and programmes will move to the facilities there by 2013.

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