BBC Weekend News airs three times on both Saturday and Sunday.

The programme runs for approximately 10 minutes, and is immediately followed by a weather forecast.

It runs for 15 minutes and includes an update from BBC Sport in Salford; the programme is followed by a five-minute regional news bulletin, then a weather forecast.

For many years, the lunchtime bulletin was hosted by a presenter from the BBC News Channel; from 2006 to 2015, this was usually Maxine Mawhinney.

Mawhinney briefly returned to the role until her departure in April 2017[1] and Shaun Ley took over afterwards.