BBC North West Tonight

The lady in the static above is Aasmah Mir, She is a presenter on Drive on Radio 5 Live. She also regularly contributes to the newspaper and other reviews on Daybreak, in the Lorraine segment.

She also used to present on Scotland Today on STV, back in the early nineties.

Thanks both, sorry to confuse, I was referring to Aasmah. Think I must have seen her on Lorraine when I've caught the show before.

Anyway, as you were...

http://www.medicalook.com/reviews/Ventolin.jpg

Yep, I have two of those...

I have one

So what will happen to the Oxford Road studio furniture? Skip? Or it will be used internally somewhere?

When I went on an Oxford Road tour in about 2008, they had what I could have swore was the old blue Working Lunch desk in the room where you 'had a go at the weather'. Perhaps the Oxford Rd desk will be used for something like that.

Remember in the last change of set that bloke who lived in a circular house or something who got their really uncomfortable round bench thing?

Yeah be lived in a lighthouse, Tony seems to think the old sofa is now in his house

I know that one of the old desks from Calendar (YTV) ended up in the studio at the media studies dept of Huddersfield Uni!

It could just as easily end up in a university journalism department.

When I was at UCLAN, for example, we had the old grey NWT set of the late 80s, with the "worms" NW neon sign http://hub.tv-ark.org.uk/images/bbc_northwest/bbc_nw_images/news/northwesttonight300189dl-01.jpg
- and the orange desk from the final pre-corporate version of NWT. http://hub.tv-ark.org.uk/images/bbc_northwest/bbc_nw_images/news/nwt_flinders_1996close-01.jpg

Am sure someone'd quite happily make use of it if it doesn't go into use for training or anything.

Or Wood Norton, like the BBC Midlands Today sets from 1999 and 2001

All it takes is someone enterprising to phone the newsroom and ask - it's how my student TV station ended up with the 2000-3 Scotland Today set.

If you missed them, here are 2 of last week's special reports looking around the deserted NBH:



Incidentally, what the heck is going on with that cardboard Pudsey bear? Looks like a classic Pudsey has been mutilated to fit with the new design (check out the covered up lower third).

http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w191/2007TopGearDog/nwtpudsey.jpg

I find it hard to believe they were taking that with them as opposed to, say, killing it with fire.