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Regarding Annita McVeigh - Martine Croxall tweeted that 'they were not leaving, going anywhere'. I fully expect to see them both continuing to present across the new channel.

Martine has made it clear on Twitter that ‘as things stand’ she isn’t leaving the BBC, though doesn’t appear to have any more clarity on what her role would be from April. She’s been quite adamant that she won’t have a ‘presentation’ role on air. Off-air staff generally seemed to have more clarity (though in many cases that seemed to mean redundancy very sadly).

I’m surprised that so close to the new channel launching, so little is known publicly about the schedule or programmes, and that so much seems up in the air in the Washington DC bureau (including at least one chief presenter yet to be appointed). Ordinarily you’d have expected television promos, at least for Nicky Campbell’s programme…

Martine said on Twitter today that she has 6 News Channel presenting shifts left. She also said that she doesn’t yet know what she will be doing after that.