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In February 2002, Newsround expanded from a sole ten-minute programme on weeknights to through-the-day bulletins seven days a week to tie-in with the launch of the CBBC Channel, and was broadcast across BBC One, BBC Two and the CBBC Channel. With this included a new theme, titles and expanded presenting team.
The East of England is a busy patch to cover and a lot can happen every week. The BBC has put together a quiz based on news stories in the region over the last seven days, from 11-17 January, 2025.
The News Quiz was created by John Lloyd, [2] based on an idea by Nicholas Parsons. [3]The series was first broadcast in 1977 with Barry Norman in the chair. Subsequently it was chaired by Barry Took from 1979 to 1981, Simon Hoggart from 1981 to 1986, Took again from 1986 to 1995, and then again by Hoggart from 1996 until March 2006. [4]
The Big Fat Quiz of the Year is an approximately annual British television programme broadcast in the last or first week of the year on Channel 4. The show is a comedy panel game in the style of a pub quiz. Three teams of two celebrities, mostly comedians, are asked questions about the year gone by in various categories, writing answers on an ...
Oduba left Newsround in 2013. Oduba formerly presented the sport for BBC Breakfast and BBC Radio 5 Live. He has also presented and reported on British Olympic Dreams along with former Newsround co-presenter Sonali Shah. Oduba began a debut presenting solo on the morning slot for the 2014 Commonwealth Games on BBC One and BBC Sport. [6]
Rachel Horne (née Gibson) is a Northern Irish newsreader and journalist.She presented the BBC children's news programme Newsround from 2002 until 2006. She also presented BBC News' business bulletins on the BBC News Channel and travel news on weekday mornings on BBC Radio 2 in March to December 2018.
Laura Jones (born 1975) is a British television journalist who is best known for her work on the popular children's television programme Newsround. She was born in Aberystwyth, Wales, but spent most of her childhood in Lampeter, also in Wales. Laura worked as a journalist for BBC News in Wales before joining Newsround in 2002.
In addition to his work at Newsround, in 2015 Dougan became a regular entertainment presenter for the Number One Show on BBC Radio 1, [17] and was billed on the BBC's core presenting team for Glastonbury Festival 2016. [18] In April 2022, he chose to step away from Newsround and became a freelance presenter and journalist.