Anglia/East of England News Discussion

I did wonder if they were going to include the updated fleet.

I'm sure that Anglia News' last one or two pre-generic title sequences (either/both sub-regions?) included footage of a train travelling across a flat fens landscape, that had something like a British Rail "Intercity" livery (or similar) which was already massively out-of-date before those titles even debuted.

To include stock footage that is already years old (and contains something that visually dates it as being out-of-date) when constructing a new title sequence is unforgivably poor practice, as far as I'm concerned.

On the subject of outdated images in ITV regional news title sequences...

The antepenultimate image in the current ITV News West Country (East) titles - which remain unchanged since they debuted in 2013 - features a toddler by the Millennium Square water fountains in Bristol. He must be in about Year 6 at school by now! (I was tempted to exaggerate, and say that he must be about age 30 with kids of his own by now...)

The only ITV plc region that I know for a fact has made any later update to its 2013 titles is Granada Reports, which have featured the Mersey Gateway Bridge since shortly after it opened in autumn 2017. I don't honestly know what previous image was ditched to make way for it, but I think some of the other existing images were reshuffled.

Itv news anglia have updated the Happisburgh lighthouse with a more HD version of it. ( watch it online to see).

ITV news Central replaced the St Martin’s cathedral with a cattle auction though I think that was a one off

Yes Intercity was long gone by 2003

Although the last Intercity branded stock didn't disappear from the Norwich-Liverpool Street line until the start of One (latterly national express east anglia).

I'm having flashbacks to 2003.

First time ever that's been on topic I think

SOME PERSONAL NEWS - as they say these days
As you know, Inside Out closed, along with my post. So it’s with a very heavy heart, after almost 23 years, I'm leaving the BBC. Here's a statement thing and a photo of me looking positively into the middle distance and the future😉 pic.twitter.com/QH02kTbNFe

— David Whiteley (@DavidWhiteleyTV) October 13, 2020

To be honest this looks more like a cross-country set, than anything you'd get on the ECML....

To be fair though David Whitely only appeared on Look East to occasionally fill in for Stewart. He never reported etc. Was presenter of Inside Out and a BBC Norfolk radio show.

Leigh Milner was back with the late news Wednesday and tweeted to say she’d just had a week off. She’ll only be jumping ship when she’s poached by Sky or moved up the BBC chain - undoubtedly going to happen!

Doesn’t seem that long since the cull at ITV Anglia in 2009... regional stalwarts like John Francis, Tim Evans, Stephen Lee, Rebecca Atherstone etc. all went. Seems it’s Look East’s turn to go through a similar process now.

I liked Stephen Lee, works on Australian news now I think?