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BBC Look East back on air after studio storm damage

Jenny Kirk
BBC News, East of England
BBC A cameraman in the foreground filming Look East presenter Susie Fowler-Watt, who is looking direct at the camera in front of an empty beach with blue skies in the backgroundBBC
Monday night's Look East was presented from Lowestoft, Suffolk by Susie Fowler-Watt

Regional TV news programme BBC Look East has returned to the airwaves after being temporarily forced off air due to storm damage.

Cameras, lights and other equipment was affected by rainwater leaking into the studio, at The Forum in Norwich, following a thunderstorm in the early hours of Saturday.

Bulletins covering London and the East of England were broadcast until the show returned at 18:30 on Monday with an outside broadcast in Lowestoft, Suffolk.

A BBC spokesperson said: "We're now back up and running in the studio and on location across the region."

Two BBC engineers in the foreground helping to output Monday's edition of Look East, with various dials and screens in front of them on the desk
The show was broadcast via a satellite truck from Lowestoft

Radio and online newsroom operations, also based at The Forum, were unaffected.

Sunday's broadcast of Politics East also went ahead as usual.

BBC Look East covers Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Norfolk, Northamptonshire and Suffolk.

Martin Barber/BBC A drone image of The Forum. There is a glass atrium and a curved main roof, with flatter roofs around the sides of the U-shaped building. The BBC office is in the left-hand wing. There is a paved area, stone steps as well as tables and chairs outside the building.Martin Barber/BBC
BBC Look East broadcasts from The Forum in Norwich which sustained water damage due to heavy rain

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