being shown later than planned because of tennis at wimbledon overrunning on bbc one. complaint about live sport delaying the news continued this week with the football tournament still responsible. the news at six being put on earlier than advertised with sport again the culprit. here's the response of one anonymous viewer. bbc one six o'clock evening news. it had been advertised all day as being rescheduled to 7pm. well, fair enough, �*cause everything i know is prioritised below wimbledon. i go and put the tv on 7:00 and guess what? you put the news on at the wrong time. you lot treat the licence fee payers with utter contempt.

that day there were due to be two men semifinals at wimbledon. but one was cancelled because of an injury. bbc television told as the six o'clock news was able to air at its normal time once it was confirmed that the wimbledon men's semifinal was cancelled. there may be occasions with the schedules have to be more flexible. the studio now being used for the news at six and news at ten features a giant video wall showing presenters from all the nations and regions who are about deliver their own bulletins. what's not mentioned is that the number of those presenters and the services they provide are declining because of budget cuts. the latest round announced

in may and defected from the autumn included the end of the oxford edition of south today and the cambridge version of look east. first tonight, cambridge university is to increase mental health funding after the death of five students. a heat health alert has been introduced in the south and we're being reminded about the dangers posed by lakes and rivers. ten people have drowned in oxfordshire in the past two years. martin and daphne chapman describing themselves as loyal bbc viewers, e—mailed us, saying...

those are not the first cuts to regional services. steve contacted us last summer after hearing that local news updates during the breakfast programme had been suspended because of the impact of covid. his response: to discuss this, i'm joined by the bbc�*s director of nations. he is responsible for local or national output across the uk. thanks so much for coming on newswatch. let's start with the

regional news bulletin. do you except that if you live somewhere you might be forgiven for thinking, what is news in norwich got to do with me? if you live in that area, you are already receiving a lot during the day from norwich, a very established connection over many years, but i do accept there is a real concern. it is not driven by savings. the changes are really about keeping pace with our audiences. many, many of our audiences are moving digitally, moving online, and we need to keep pace with that. and that does mean that we have to make some targeted reductions in our live broadcast services. you talk about targeted reductions. you, therefore, and do acknowledge that some people will get a less tailored news service on television. well, we have proposed two changes. one brings together our services across oxfordshire with a service that we already deliver from southampton

and the other brings together the cambridge and norwich programmes. now, in both those areas, those larger regions will still be significantly smaller than many of our largest regions across england, so we have looked at that very carefully. we still think we can deliver an outstanding service but i absolutely get that if you live in those areas, particularly in oxfordshire and cambridgeshire right now, you are worried about the change and i think our task is to rise to the creative challenges and continue to deliver programmes that really cut through. the regional news programmes are the biggest news programmes in the uk bar none, and we want to maintain our strength while building our online services. i also want to ask you about the england documentary series, which was to designed to explain big issues to a local lens. two episodes had had to be taken off fair and it is now

ending after just two series. it is a bit of a mess, isn't it? i don't think so. what we have been doing with the senior england since i came into the role is really looking at where we want to put our priority, and i believe that local investigative journalism delivered across radio and television and online is the absolute priority. and right now, we don't have enough reporting expertise on the ground to really dig in to the bigger stories, and we want to put that right. so are talking about creating a new investigative team of 60 or 70 journalists across england who can really go after the stories behind the headlines, really dig in. and that means making difficult choices in one of those choices was sadly to bring it to an end. it has been a terrific first series and there been a couple of bumps in the road. but the production team have really risen the challenge and ifeel for them because they have done everything that we have asked

of them, but i think the priority right now across england is to make sure we have got our investigative capacity in place so that we can really set the agenda across our local services. and what will that mean? will it be a new programme? no, again, it goes back to what i was saying about the changing ways that audiences consume media. so these will be multimedia investigative teams, and by that, i mean that when they dig out the story, it can be delivered across radio, television, online. we are not driven by the tv schedule in terms of how we think about our stories. we think about where our audiences are and their expectation of how we deliver to them and, as i say, we deliver across television, radio and online and their stories are ready to go. i hear what you say, that a lot of these changes are being driven by digital, but is there not a danger that you will leave behind the loyal traditional television audience? well, it is ourjob to make sure we get that balance right. the truth is that bbc local radio, 39 stations

across england, bbc regional news, they are hugely popular with older audiences. but there is also an audience across england based locally who has a real appetite for local storytelling, but, increasingly, they turn online, and i believe ourjob is to make sure that all our local audiences get value from the bbc, and that is about striking a balance between our television and radio services and services that we deliver online. now, for years and years, people have been asking — why can't i watch a regional news in high definition? so, give us a date. when will it finally happen? i believe we can deliver hd services across all our regions by early next year. it's been a long wait, and the simple reason is because for every

service you want you have to effectively put an entire new channel on disguise your a commercial distribution platform and that cost was prohibited. as costs begins to reduce and audience expectation changes, we need to get this right, so i would like to believe that all our english regions will be available by early next year. we'll hold you to that. good to have you with us. many thanks. thank you. thank you for all your comments this week. if you want to share your opinions about what you see on bbc news, e—mail newswatch. you can find us on twitter. you can call us. and do have a look at our website. that is all from us. we are off the air for a few weeks over the summer, but samira will be back at the start of september to hear more of your thoughts.

for now though, from me, until the next time, goodbye. hello. it's looking likely the uk will see its highest temperature on record at the start of next week. it's more likely than not that somewhere, we'll see a0 degrees celsius for the first time in the uk. that's why the met office has a red extreme heat warning in force on monday and tuesday. widespread impacts and disruption. do take a look at these warnings and what it means for you, and prepare for what's coming at the start of next week. this is the area covered by the red extreme heat warning on monday and tuesday, a large part of england. notjust a london thing — manchester, leeds in that as well with exceptionally high temperatures. all of england, wales and into southern scotland sunday to tuesday covered by a met office amber extreme heat warnings. widespread impacts in these areas as well. we've seen record temperatures, spain and portugal, this excessive heat lifting north through france and into the uk as the weekend goes on.

a natural weather pattern to get heat from the south into the uk over summer, unnatural to see such high temperatures. the reason — climate change. now is the time to bring as much cool air into the house as possible with some temperatures in single figures as saturday begins. a good time to open up the windows if it's safe to do so. there'll be a bit of rain early on with a stiff breeze in northern scotland. that will move north across the northern isles. elsewhere, a lot of sunshine to begin with, though for northern ireland and scotland, cloud will increase more widely during the day and especially the afternoon goes on, we'll start to introduce some patchy outbreaks of rain. for much of england and wales, it'll be a sunny day, though cloud increasing also in northern england going into the evening. it'll be warmer. temperatures for england and wales low to mid 20s. midlands, centraland south—eastern parts of england, we're looking at highs of around 26—29 degrees celsius. now, overnight and into sunday, we'll take some outbreaks of rain through parts of scotland, northern ireland and into northern england as well. clear spells to the south of that. it will be a touch warmer as sunday begins.

and then early on sunday, on the damp side early northern ireland, northern england. that rain clears. scotland still seeing some rain in the far north whereas elsewhere, by the afternoon, there'll be a lot of sunshine around and it's hotter at this stage. very warm across parts of scotland, northern ireland, but hot england and wales, more places getting above 30 degrees celsius and, of course, the heat surging even more into monday. a very warm, perhaps record—breakingly warm, night on monday night. heat again on tuesday before, thankfully, it turns cooler from midweek.

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