BBC Points West

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(s)	English
Production
Production location(s)	Broadcasting House, Bristol, England, UK
Editor(s)	Neil Bennett
Camera setup	Multi-camera
Running time	30 minutes (main 6:30pm programme)
Production company(s)	BBC West
Release
Original network	BBC One West
Picture format	576i (16:9 SDTV)
Original release	September 1957 (1957-09) – present
Chronology
Related shows	ITV News West Country
External links
Website

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 and North Dorset.

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
Holly Green
Sarah Farmer
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
Clinton Rogers	Somerset	Shared with Spotlight
Alison 'Ali' Vowles	Bath and North East Somerset	Newsreader/stand-in presenter

Specialist Correspondents

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

News Correspondents

Person	Related notes
Liz Beacon	Newsreader
Sarah-Jane Bungay
Sally Challoner
Sabet Choudhury
Will Glennon
Fiona Lamdin
Amanda Parr
Andrew Plant	Newsreader and network reporter
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

• Chris Vacher
• Michael Buerk
• Armine Sandford
• Andrew Harvey
• Vivien Creegor
• Graham Purches
• Gerald Haycock
• Sue Carpenter
• Brian Roberts
• Mark Puckle
• Lucy Artus
• Annie McKie
• Beverley Thompson
• Sheila Young
• Sandi Marshall
• Richard Angwin (Weather presenter)
• Malcolm Frith (Business correspondent)
• Pete Baker
• Rachel Hicks

• David Passmore (Sports presenter)
• Clare Banks
• Mike Dornan
• Roy Sheppard
• Tony Target (Weather presenter)
• Susan Osman
• Nigel Turner
• Saima Mohsin
• Maurice Flynn
• Katharine Carpenter
• Jeremy Carrad
• Amanda Theunissen
• John Norman
• Gwyn Richards
• 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 Programmes
• BBC Points West on Facebook

• BBC News - Bristol at BBC Online
• BBC News - Gloucestershire at BBC Online
• BBC News - Somerset at BBC Online
• BBC News - Wiltshire at BBC Online