Shaun Ley

Shaun Dominic Ley (born 14 June 1969) is a British journalist and newsreader for BBC News.

As of October 2021, he was a regular weekday evening presenter (20:00-21:00 & 22:30-23:00 & 23:30-00:00) on the BBC News channel.

He occasionally hosts the afternoon news (14:00-17:00), and was the last main presenter of Dateline London before it ended in October 2022.

Junior in 1980, Ley joined the BBC as a graduate trainee in 1990, and later worked on the regional news programme Points West.

[2] Ley is a longtime fan of the BBC series Doctor Who and in 2011 he presented and narrated When Worlds Collide, a documentary accompanying the DVD release of The Happiness Patrol, which looked into the series' political and ideological influences over the years.