BBC Points West

BBC Points West
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Presented by	Alex Lovell David Garmston (Main anchors)
Theme music composer	David Lowe
Country of origin	England, United Kingdom
Original language	English
Production
Production locations	Broadcasting House, Bristol, England
Editor	Neil Bennett
Camera setup	Multi-camera
Running time	30 minutes (main 6:30pm programme)
Production company	BBC West
Original release
Network	BBC One West
Release	September 1957 (1957-09) – present

BBC Points West (known as News West from June 1991 until May 2000) is the BBC's regional TV news programme for the West of England, covering Bristol, the majority of Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, northern and eastern Somerset, North Dorset, and north east Devon.

History

Regional television news in the West of England began in September 1957 with the start of daily short bulletins. Around this time, news bulletins for the West shared a 5-10 minute timeslot with Welsh news bulletins as the Wenvoe transmitter on the western outskirts of Cardiff was serving viewers in both south Wales and the West of England. The West's regional bulletins were relaunched in 1962 as Points West but still had to share the new 25-minute timeslot with Wales Today.

The launch of a dedicated BBC Wales television station in February 1964 allowed Points West to become a full-length regional news programme broadcast only to the West of England. Between 1991 and 2000, the programme was known as BBC News West.

The team

Programme presenters

• David Garmston
• Alex Lovell

Weather presenters

Alina Jenkins

Person	Related notes
Ian Fergusson
Bee Tucker
Holly Green
Sarah Farmer	Based at BBC South, Southampton
Dan Downs	Based at BBC South West, Plymouth
Emily Wood

District Correspondents

Person	District/area	Related note(s)
Sarah-Jane Bungay	Wiltshire	Shared with South Today
Steve Knibbs	Gloucestershire	Shared with Midlands Today and South Today Oxford
Clinton Rogers	Somerset	Shared with Spotlight
Alison 'Ali' Vowles	Bath and North East Somerset	Newsreader/stand-in presenter

Specialist Correspondents

Person	Title
Alistair 'Ali' Durden	Sport Editor
Dave Harvey	Business Correspondent
Matthew Hill	Health Correspondent
Paul Barltrop	Politics Editor

News Correspondents

Person	Related notes
Sabet Choudhury	Newsreader / Network Reporter
Liz Beacon	Newsreader
Sarah-Jane Bungay
Sally Challoner
Will Glennon
Fiona Lamdin
Amanda Parr
Andrew Plant	Newsreader and World Affairs Correspondent (currently on secondment to Brussels)
Imogen Sellers	Newsreader
Madeleine Ware

Producers

• Jude Hollingsworth
• Dawn Trevett
• Naomi Wordley
• Alice Bouverie
• Catherine Powell
• Liz Beacon (Stand-in producer)
• Sarah-Jane Bungay (Stand-in producer)

Former presenters and reporters

• Chris Vacher
• Susan Osman
• Michael Buerk
• Armine Sandford
• Andrew Harvey
• Vivien Creegor
• Annie McKie
• Clive Myrie
• John Norman
• Gwyn Richards
• Beverley Thompson
• Graham Purches
• Gerald Haycock
• Sue Carpenter
• Brian Roberts
• Mark Puckle
• Lucy Artus
• Sheila Young
• Sandi Marshall
• Pete Baker

• Rachel Hicks
• Jenny Craddock
• Maurice Flynn
• Katharine Carpenter
• Jeremy Carrad
• Amanda Theunissen
• Clare Banks
• Mike Dornan
• Roy Sheppard
• David Passmore (Sports presenter)
• Nigel Turner (Sports presenter)
• Malcolm Frith (Business correspondent)
• Steve Brodie (Home affairs correspondent)
• Kevin Burden (Environment correspondent)
• Saima Mohsin
• Tony Target (Weather presenter)
• Richard Angwin (Weather presenter)
• Isabel Webster (Weather presenter)
• Elizabeth Rizzini (Weather presenter)
• Jemma Cooper (Weather presenter)
• Kawser Quamer (Weather presenter)
• Kate Haskell (née Reeves; weather presenter)

See also

• BBC News

References

External links

• BBC Points West at BBC Online