[Steve in Pudsey]

Always seemed odd to me that LWT never had a news service before 1982. I know that a full service for 2 and half days would have been ridiculous but something similar to ABC might have sufficed:

But in the context that the BBC weren't doing anything on Sundays in the English regions in that era, and BBC 1 was putting out Tom and Jerry cartoons in London and the South East while the rest of the country opted out for regional news (on the pretext that anything of great interest in the region would be covered by the national news) it's not so strange an idea.