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Look North is a name used by the BBC for its local regional news programme in three regions in the North Of England . The Hull-based programme was launched in 2002 using modern studio facilities which had been built in Hull , in association with Kingston Communications (Hull's telephone system). Broadcast from Belmont (the tallest structure in Europe) it is one of the BBC 's newest regions. Before November 11th 2002, this region was part of a larger BBC Yorkshire and Lincolnshire region, served by Look North From Leeds . Look North's main presenter in Hull is Peter Levy , with weather from Paul Hudson . Lisa Gallagher presents the weather on the Breakfast bulletins (other BBC regions have pre-recorded forecasts from a national weather presenter). As well as the newsroom in Hull, it has reporters based in bureaux in Grimsby and Lincoln . Currently it produces a half-hour news programme at 18:30, a fifteen-minute bulletin at 13:30, regular opt-ins to BBC Breakfast and five-minute bulletins at 15:25 and 22:25 every weekday, as well as one bulletin each on Saturday and Sunday. A viewer's photograph of a countryside scene is shown and introduced by Peter Levy each day. The Hull programme covers the area of Radio Humberside and the northern part of Lincolnshire . Due to the size of North Yorkshire, the listenership of Radio York are covered Look North from Hull, Leeds and Newcastle . The south of Lincolnshire is also covered by East Midlands Today Households in North West Norfolk whose television aerials point towards the Belmont TV Mast in Lincolnshire receive BBC Look North rather than BBC Look East which the rest of Norfolk receives. This leads to a strange situation in which some west Norfolk housholds' 'local' news is in fact news based predominantly about Hull and its locale rather than receiving news about the Norwich and Cambridge locale which would seem much more appropriate for people living in the area. (King's Lynn is just over an hour from Norwich and Cambridge but nearly three hours from Hull. Before the BBC launched the Hull-based East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire version of Look North in 2002 households in North West Norfolk would receive 'local' news from Leeds. This problem can be easily rectified by adapting household aerials so they receive BBC Look East instead. However, a significant minority of people in west Norfolk are either unaware of this or do not bother to get it changed as a significant number of households in west Norfolk still receive Look North through their analogue aerials. The increase in households with satellite television means that many today receive Look East through satellite. NEWS AND WEATHER PRESENTERS
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