''BBC Weekend News'' is the

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's national news programme on

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at the weekend and bank holidays, although it is often referred to on guides simply as ''BBC News''. It is called ''BBC Weekend News'' on all bulletins and carries generic

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bulletin titles, apart from the late bulletin on Sunday where it is named '' BBC News at Ten'' and carries the ''BBC News at Ten'' titles.

Format

''BBC Weekend News'' airs three times on both Saturday and Sunday. The main three bulletins are presented from Studio B in

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; they follow a similar format to the weekday bulletins on BBC One, but are shorter in length. The lunchtime bulletin normally airs at 1:00pm. The programme runs for approximately 10minutes, and is immediately followed by a weather forecast. The evening bulletin is usually broadcast at some point between 6:00pm. It runs for 15minutes and includes an update from

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in Salford; the programme is followed by a five-minute regional news bulletin, then a weather forecast. The late edition airs at varying times on Saturdays, and 10:00pm on Sundays. It also contains an update from BBC Sport. Despite being billed as ''BBC Weekend News'' in TV listings, the late Sunday bulletin is usually branded on air as ''BBC News at Ten''. The Sunday late news is followed by a regional bulletin. Until early 2023, the weekend bulletins were also broadcast on the BBC News channel; this practice ended shortly before the merger of said channel and BBC World News. On occasions of major news relating to the UK, the bulletin may be simulcast on the UK feed of the news channel. In the summer when '' Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg'' is off air and the BBC is not broadcasting the

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there is an additional hour long bulletin of BBC Weekend News, focused on rolling news and updates from BBC Sport.

Presenters

Lunchtime

For many years, the lunchtime bulletin was hosted by a presenter from the BBC News Channel; from 2006 to 2015, this was usually Maxine Mawhinney. Following a reshuffle, ''BBC News 24'' launch presenter Gavin Esler became the main presenter until his departure from the BBC in early 2017. Mawhinney briefly returned to the role until her departure in April 2017 and Shaun Ley took over afterwards. Since the merger of the BBC News Channel and BBC World News in April 2023, there have been no specific presenters for this bulletin; instead, it is generally presented by whomever hosted the early morning shift on the news channel. However since the beginning of 2025, it has been presented by the presenter who covers 14:00 to 18:00 on the channel Martine Croxall announced she would share duties with Kasia Madera as the main presenter. Chief presenters, Ben Brown, Lucy Hockings, Maryam Moshiri or Clive Myrie who cover the evening edition will front the lunchtime news if editorially significant events or if they are covering the morning or afternoon shift on weekends

Evening

Unlike the lunchtime bulletin, the presenter of the two evening bulletins is usually one of the regular faces from weekday bulletins on

or one of the chief presenters (marked with a †).

Current presenters

Former presenters

If there is no position before the years of being a presenter, then this newsreader was either a relief presenter or occasional guest stand-in presenter. * George Alagiah (1999–2002) * Matthew Amroliwala (2001–2014 and 2022) *

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(Main presenter, 1964–1972) * Richard Baker (1954–1982) * Jennie Bond (Main presenter, 1988–1999) * Fiona Bruce (Main presenter, 1999–2005) *

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(Main presenter, 1988–2003) * Jill Dando (Main presenter, 1988–1999) * Robert Dougall (Main presenter, 1964–1973) * Chris Eakin (2013–2015) * Huw Edwards (Occasional relief presenter, 1999–2023) * Gavin Esler (2002, Main presenter, 2015–2017) * Joanna Gosling (2008–2011) * Andrew Harvey (Main presenter, 1984–1999) * Philip Hayton (Main presenter, 1984–1993, 2005) *

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(Main presenter, 1981–1993) * Darren Jordon (2001–2006) * Kenneth Kendall (1954–1981) * Sue Lawley (Main presenter, 1983–1988) * Jan Leeming (Main presenter, 1980–1987) * Chris Lowe (Main presenter, 1988–1999, 2006–2007) * Jon Sopel (2003) * Martyn Lewis (1988–1999) * Emily Maitlis (2006–2013) * Maxine Mawhinney (Main presenter, 1999–2017) * Laurie Mayer (1985–1993) *

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(2006–2012) *Clarence Mitchell (1999–2005) * Christopher Morris (1984–1993) *

Angela Rippon Angela May Rippon (born 12 October 1944) is an English broadcaster, former newsreader, writer and journalist. Rippon presented radio and television news programmes in South West England before moving to BBC One's ''BBC Nine O'Clock News, Nine ...

(1975–1983) * John Simpson (1981–1988) * Peter Sissons (Main presenter, 1993–2009) * Julia Somerville (2011–2012) * Edward Stourton (1993–1999) * Moira Stuart (Main presenter, 1981–1998, 2006) * Carole Walker (2012–2017) * Richard Whitmore (Main presenter, 1972–1988) * Sian Williams (1999–2013) * Nicholas Witchell (Main presenter, 1981–1999) * Peter Woods (Main presenter, 1964–1981) * Nicholas Owen (2007–2018) * Sophie Long (2010–2013, 2017) *Rebecca Jones (2015–2017) * Karin Giannone (2017) * Simon McCoy (2008–2021) * Tina Daheley (2018–2020) * Kate Silverton (Main presenter, 2008–2021) * Joanna Gosling (Main presenter, 1999–2023) * Mishal Husain (Alternate presenter, 2005–2022) * Gareth Barlow (2023)

Sports News

During the late programme on each day a round up of the days sports news is presented from the BBC Sport Centre at

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. This is usually presented by one of the

channel sports presenters: Olly Foster, Karthi Gnanasegaram, Lizzie Greenwood-Hughes and Katherine Downes.

References

External links

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