its utterly irrelevant thats she's black or what her age is- shes simply good at the job. Easy to understand and clear

john graham, LONdon , Uk

Moira Stuart has always come across as a true professional, loyal Lady who by her exemplary conduct throughout this time has highlighted how shallow, and disloyal her employer (the BBC) is to someone who has stuck by them for 34 years. Obviously the lesson to BBC workers is to grab any offers from outside and look after yourself because if the BBC can do treat someone so shabbily who has devoted 34 years of her life to them, they certainly won't look after you!!!

David Lewis, Horsham, England

In response to Andrew Waldron, so what you are actually saying is that only those using Received Pronunciation should be presenting television programmes? Sorry, times have moved forward and the BBC should reflect the diversity of *British* accents whether they be Scottish, Welsh or Brummie!

To get back to the topic at hand, this is a ridiculous trend. Considering our ageing population as a whole shouldn't there be more veteran presenters fronting programmes to relect this?

Pam Turner, Glasgow, Scotland

Sounds like a case of constructive dismissal to me. No doubt they'll bring in somebody who will shout at us (the viewer) like the presenters do on kids shows. Does nothing stay constant at the beeb anymore. If it ain't broke, don't fix it!

John, London,

Moira Stuart... Nick Ross...Kate Adie....Anna Ford...Angela Ripon all axed or decided to leave following "reviews" by the BBC.

And there is no ageism?

Who is next Humphreys, Paxman, Wark ?

Neil Meadows, Wigan, UK

The BBC is mainly run by women, (as many senior BBC men have complained on their way out!), but sadly by a new generation who are the antithesis of everything a true professional like Moira Stuart stands for. This new breed talks down to audiences as if they were children and, worse still, in semi-literate terms where fad is far more important than fact.

Last week, English weather forecasts were presented by five different Scottish weather forecasters in one day. Summer months have echoed to the sound of "trendy" speech impediments. The entire year has been dominated by regional accents so strong that they regularly make information impossible to understand at the rate it is being imparted. This represents an utterly avoidable failure to communicate by supposedly the world's pre-eminent communicators speaking the worlds master language.

Clarity? Intelligibility. Truth?

I doubt that the new BBC knows the true meaning of these words, never mind their spirit.

Andrew Waldron, Bournemouth, England

It's a shame that we have'nt got more newscastors like Moira Stuart. We seem to have a lot of giggling bimbo's who would look more at home on CBB's.
I'd much rather listen to a professional telling the news anyday.
Sheila

Sheila, Robertsbridge, Sussex

Well that's the *modern* BBC for you!
Almost all of their senior presenters have protested the removal
of Moira and then Mark Thompson (He Who Knows Everything)
was required to justify her removal to the relevant Commons Select Committee.
I got rid of my TV a year ago.
I have no plans to have another.

Jeffers, Maidstone, UK

What is wrong with the BBC? why get rid of perfectly good popular people like Moira. The management are obviously very short sighted and out of touch with their viewers. The nmind boggles.

T Skitmore, London, London

What a pity we have to pay a TV Licence for the BBC to wast & sideline really good people, & replacing them with weaker alternatives & a lot of them overpaid at that....get in the real world BBC

JOHN FOXALL (RETIRED), birmingham, west midlands

She is a diamond amongst dross,the BBC she leaves is a shadow of its former self.

Hans von Thaler, Algarve, Portugal

I have been missing her presence at news time on the bbc. I do think that the bbc has lost its way and i am very annoyed that they still take monies from the public in the way of a licence. It would be nice if they could go back to the day's of professionalism, but alas i think they are not up to the challenge. This is just one of many reasons the bbc is no longer a flagship to broadcasting in general.

Stephen, Wolverhampton,

I just said to my partner that the BBC is again in trouble. She said "What again"! I said yes boring isn't it. Not as boring as a party political broadcast but boring all the same. We do not look foward to the next bit of sleeze but we know it's coming.

andand@kent, Tunbridge Wells,