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BBC Spotlight’s Justin Leigh signs off after 33 years

Justin Leigh has announced he is to leave the BBC after 33 years - including almost 20 years presenting the UK’s most popular regional TV news programme, BBC Spotlight.

The popular presenter of the BBC One South West bulletin will sign off for good on Friday, October 16.

Justin said: “The Spotlight team and our viewers are like a second family to me, so leaving the only job...

New editors join BBC Spotlight and BBC Radio Cornwall

Daisy Griffith is now leading the most popular regional news bulletin in the country, Spotlight, which reaches more than 50 per cent of the South West each week.

Meanwhile Emma Clements is running BBC Radio Cornwall, a station with more than 100,000 weekly listeners.

Stephanie Marshall, head of the BBC in the South West and West, said the experienced journalists would bring...