martin burgess moon and vivian barthe, thank you so much.he programme, do email newswatch you can find us on twitter at newswatch bbc, you can call us on 0370 0106676 and do have a look at previous discussions on our website, bbc .co .uk/ newswatch. we will be back with your thoughts about bbc news coverage again next week. goodbye. hello. weather changes on the way — many areas that have been stuck under cloud for the past week or so, especially in england and wales, gradually breaking out into brighter skies on sunday. if not then, at the start of next week. why? because high pressure is moving away, a flow of air around that bringing something clearer and warmer in from the south—east. where we have seen some sunshine occasionally this week in northern ireland and scotland, a change here to something wetter, gradually, during sunday. it may not be a bad thing, though, where things have been so very dry recently. it's as you were, though, as we start off on saturday morning. a lot of cloud around, some hill fog, some poor visibility, some

hundreds of viewers complained to the bbc and on social media and two of them join me now, vivian barthular because i commute, so i'm going to work every morning and i want to know what the traffic's going to be like. i know there are other ways you can access local news but when you enjoy watching bbc breakfast every morning and the local news is an important part of that, every half— hour, when it's not there, you really notice it's not there. so, we did ask bbc management for an interview on why it's been off for so long and this is the statement we've got because no—one was available for interview. this is a statement from bbc england who made the decision about breakfast: what do you both think of the reasons given for that statement? martin first. it's nice to know that now but, at the time, when itjust wasn't there, it was like it had disappeared. it was just strange that there was no mention of it, it was almost like it wasn't important and i know that when i switched over to the other side, they are still doing local news bulletins at breakfast and in the evening as well, but n