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Chris Lowe did weekend evenings for quite a while (for pretty much all of the noughties?) and was an old school presenter who took to rolling news rather better than some others. He had a nice friendly informality. Here was his final evening in 2009 with Annita McVeigh: youtu.be 

And here with Joanna Gosling in 2003 (I loved this countdown with scenes from around the UK): youtu.be 

He presented with Anna Jones before that, too:

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And Gwenan Edwards before that.

My favourite memory of Chris Lowe was on Saturday evenings in the very early 2000s when News 24 would regularly read out the National Lottery winning numbers. Without fail, every week, Chris would always tear up his lottery ticket and throw it up in the air!

I think she and Joanna Gosling must have swapped shifts at some point in 2003, as before that Joanna did the morning shift with Philip Hayton.

They did. Joanna Gosling was originally on the weekday morning shift with Philip Hayton. Phil only used to do Saturday afternoons on News 24 as he used to present weekday evenings on BBC World. In 2001, Mishal Husain became his replacement on World and Phil moved to weekday mornings on News 24.

Prior to Philip Hayton, Joanna worked with Ben Geoghegan on News 24 weekday mornings.