BBC North West is the BBC English Region serving Lancashire, Greater Manchester, Merseyside, Cheshire, the Isle of Man (itself not, in fact, part of England), southern Cumbria, Walsden in West Yorkshire, north-west Derbyshire and parts of the Yorkshire Dales (Settle & Ribblesdale).
The region also covered the rest of Cumbria during the late 1980s, complete with an opt-out television news service for the area, before it was transferred to the BBC North East region owing to high viewer demand.
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