Fiona Bruce and that the award was "demeaning". Fiona Bruce Fiona Elizabeth Bruce (born 25 April 1964) is an English television journalist, newsreader and television presenter. Since joining the BBC as a researcher on "Panorama" in 1989, she has gone on to become the first female newsreader on the "BBC News at Ten" as well as presenting many flagship programmes for the corporation including the "BBC News at Six", "Crimewatch", "Real Story", "Antiques Roadshow" and "Fake or Fortune?". Fiona Bruce was born in Singapore, to an English mother and a Scottish father, who had worked his way up from a postboy to
BBC News presentation final red bar engulfed the screen at the end of the countdown. The studio set also remained the same, albeit with slight colour modifications to make the reds deeper. As part of the April 2008 changes that rebranded BBC News 24 as the BBC News channel, BBC World was renamed BBC World News. This gave the channel a closer link with the main news bulletins of the same name and firmly focused the channel on that aspect of broadcasting. The new look matched the domestic BBC News output while also mirroring the looks soon to be applied to the BBC