Central Tonight - Goodbye to 27 years of local ITV news in the East Midlands

[BettingSupremo]

I think that Louisa is lovely !

I'm glad that she appears on our screens from time to time on Central News.

I agree with ''returnerman''... She's probably got a fan club of ardent followers that she is blissfully unaware of !

[BettingSupremo]

@BettingSupremo

Sorry, ''retunerman'', should I say !

[tnewton1988]

Remember Dennis Coath and Keith Daniel who did the sport on Central Tv good times.Now all we get is how Birmingham City and West Brom get on

[tnewton1988]

So sad for the East Midlands, We get news from Birmingham in which they are located 50 mils away from Nottingham

[safdadon11]

louisa james is fitt

altho she looks lyk a mean bitch lol

[monkeymajikman]

louisa james in black nylons... it just doesn't get any better than that

[retunerman]

I know. She's hot and got more fans that she'll probably ever know :-)

[GOLLYSKYWOOD2]

@monkeymajikman I agree. Louisa James is beautiful, and in all black, simply mind-blowing.

[adamlukey]

Too many technical problems on central tonight. Central News is more complicated to follow though. And the presenters are serious!

[pistak09]

Would anyone agree with me if i say that ITV has definately hit the buffers with regional programmes.

[marklee1783]

i wanna lick louisa all over.

[SAMMYTHOMAS]

It was worth watching for Louisa James.

[abhudson14]

thaks ITV we now no local news in the East Midlands on tv

[macdaddyordaddymac]

louisa james needs a waxing

[leepenfold]

Central News in the old East Midlands Studio Bimingham Bob Warman first time in East Studio theres a big suprise Studio E

[ziggydamaestro]

They've done the same in the Southwest (closed Westcountry Plymouth with output from Bristol) and Northeast (closed Border with output from Gateshead).

This is just a cost-cutting exercise by ITV. All we've got are these huge super regions with shite content and little/no regional programming. When we had smaller regions, they all worked their butts off to be as good as each other - now they aren't bothered with standards.

[camrakamera]

Yes, I agree. We were warned this would happen months ago. It is a shame.

[sandyx74]

Bob didn't sound too happy!!!!!!

[dickdixon]

This is really sad folks.....endemic of the whole network being tidily uniformed and stripped of character. :(

[cubwolf]

Its a farce.

BBC for me now

[retunerman]

Yes, I know what you mean. I thought I'd stick with ITV because the BBC crowd seem a bit twee, but with the greatest respect to Bob Warman, he's from another era and not as relaxed as Steve Clamp or the rest of the East team were. The Birmingham team always seemed a bit pedestrian. Maybe it's head office syndrome that caused that with bosses breathing down their necks? Old habits die hard, but I think I'll be heading over to the BBC if things don't lighten up a bit on Central. It's a great shame