>Surely it would make more sense to put these areas under "East Midlands" or something?

There is an East Midlands region for the BBC based at Nottingham. It was split out of the Midlands Today region about 10 years ago (?) although kept looking the same until a couple of years ago when East Midlands Today took on a different look. I don't know if they hae adopted the corporate look yet, though.

I think the maps ae just trying either to grab as many possible viewers as "theirs" for the programme, or make sure that no viewer feels left out.

The transmitters for Lincolnshire also cover parts of Yorkshire - hence it coming under BBC North and YTV. To be fair, the Look North titles don't grab as much territory as the weather map! (And in the mid eighties the Leeds titles showed the entire north of England!)

>The transmitters for Lincolnshire also cover parts of Yorkshire - hence it coming under BBC North and YTV. To be fair, the Look North titles don't grab as much territory as the weather map! (And in the mid eighties the Leeds titles showed the entire north of England!)

Last time I saw North West Tonight, the weather map spread out as far as Middlesborough in the North East. Of course, they didn't put any symbols there. No, they were all in a very narrow band to the left of the screen.

Every time Central decides to revamp its weather map it gets smaller and smaller. Or at least the bit of it that actually shows the region does, more of the country is shown (although not with symbols). The Central South region now seems ever so small on screen.

Wooo! One more example of Carlton taking over the world perhaps?

I have noticed that Tyne Tees have started putting weather icons over Cumbria sometimes -- trying to get us used to it??

The regions only look stupid because of overlap in transmitter coverage, and don't really exactly cover the stated areas.

Thus:

Carlton-LWT/Anglia: covers Hertfordshire, Parts of South Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire and Southern Essex
Carlton(Central RIP)/Anglia: covers Northamptonshire, and parts of Cambridgeshire, Lincolnshire and Rutland.
and of course in South Lincolnshire you can recieve Central (Sorry, Carlton), Anglia and Yorkshire.

Anyway, this generally applies to analogue terrestrial viewers. Furthermore, since ITV and BBC seem to be single entites with only regional opt-outs for news and low-qaulity token programmes, then it is only a matter of time before these labels disappear.....