i don't think i have ever felt this nostalgic, because it is laura kuenssberg's final hours as bbc political editor. yeah. would you like to be reminded of your first few minutes of the job? i thought you might do that. when i was young and fresh and how i used to look. full of energy. we raided the cinefilm archive and this is what we found. fa news. let us talk to our political editor, laura kuenssberg. 50, laura, what is the significance of this change in wording. well, fiona, human nature, according to the electoral commission, makes us rather eager to please. more ready to say yes or no, whatever the question we are being asked. so, today, they budged david cameron into changing the question that will be put to us, so before the end of next year, voters will be asked not to say yes or no to the eu, but whether they want to remain or to leave the european union. you are very tanned, then! had you just been on a nice holiday or something? yeah, i started in august, started at the end of august, 2015, so yeah... can you remember that first moment, because obviously you had been on the tell

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it has been a protracted process, it was before christmas laura kuenssberg announced she would be standingwas advertised with an initial deadline of the 20th of january, then extended to the 10th of february and chris mason was said at the time to have ruled himself out of the running. subsequently it was widely reported that a short list had emerged of two external female candidates, list had emerged of two externalfemale candidates, but external female candidates, but then externalfemale candidates, but then the post was re—advertised internally with a new deadline of the fifth of april. in response, bbc news told us: in response, bbc news told us: in general the appointment has been warmly applauded with bridget linson describing chris mason as: we've enjoyed speaking to chris mason in the past on this programme and we are looking forward to having him on again when he starts his newjob. thank you for all your comments this week. if you want to share your opinions about what you see, read or hear on the bbc news, tv, radio, online and social media, e—mail: that's all from us, we will be

and hilariously, on iplayer, the way that it's phrased, it says, everything is changed, with laura kuenssbergou, and i think all i want to say to you is that the best feeling in the world is making you laugh. because you work so hard, and it's really, i can see it's sometimes quite stressful, so, you coming in here and me being able to crack a joke and you laughing is absolutely amazing, and the memories of this room and these headphones are just amazing. you're not allowed to say anything else nice, or else i shall be visibly moved. thank you both so much, and thank you to all our amazing newscasters. from all of us, thank you for listening. bye — bye. hello, there. it is going to get cold again tonight as most of today's showers fade away. we've got some wetter weather moving away from western scotland, still some showers for northern ireland into the night and some wetter weather comes into wales and the far south—west with some snow over the hills. but a more widespread frost, i think, across scotland and for much of england, a few icy patches as well, nowhere near as cold as last night,

it has been a protracted process, it was before christmas laura kuenssberg announced she would be standingack to hear your thoughts on bbc news coverage again next week. goodbye. good morning, welcome to breakfast with naga munchetty and ben thompson. our headlines today... calls for the united nations to intervene in the war in ukraine, to help evacuate tens of thousands of people from the besieged city of mariupol. the parents of madeleine mccann welcome the news that a german man has been formally made a suspect, over their daughter's disappearance 15 years ago. after a final bid to win support, emmanuel macron and marine le pen urge the people of france to get out and vote in tomorrow's presidential election. in sport, there's a blockbuster night ahead at wembley as tyson fury and dillian whyte get set to face off in the all—british world heavyweight title bout in front of more than 90,000 fans. photos of a trip to the beach to mark prince louis' fourth birthday — the pictures were taken by his mother, the duchess of cambridge. good morning. it is st george's day. a lot of fine weather