What's going on ?

With a reasonable amount of warning, you might have expected an enhanced service from BBC Local Radio yesterday on 'the weather'.  Instead, the news service went from local to regional to England to the UK, as the Salford-based CNS news team couldn't provide; so stations had to use Radio 2 news.

 

Everything comes full circle. Today - because of snow - I’m reading the news on local BBC stations around the country, as well as on @BBCRadio2. A joy and a privilege to return to where I started #BBClocalradio #NewYear #journey #snow

— Clare Runacres (@ClareNews2) January 5, 2025

Claire ran through from 2pm to 10pm. At 10pm she led with the weather, telling listeners there was disruption in Cumbria and Lancashire, which will have presumably re-assured listeners to Radio Cumbria and Radio Lancashire. 

This morning at 6.09, on Today, Nick Robinson exhorted me to turn to my local radio; I'd missed their 6am bulletin, which, on review, was quite detailed. I tried the Sussex pages of BBC News Online - the lead story was the re-development of Piddinghoe Village Hall "updated 13 minuted ago".  The story "Heavy rain and floods cause disruption in Sussex" was 14 hours old - and, at 8.30am, had still not been updated.