BBC News

[milly143]

Does anyone know why the news presenters have laptops on their desks? They never actually appear to do anything with them.

[crete]

because they dont want to miss any good questions in body and soul.

[Postdog]

Possibly as autocues, or maybe to pass info on to them. I remember the old days when a hand with a bit of paper came into shot.

[spainlads]

Or a telephone. Aren't we old :)

[Everhelpful]

To unnecesarily waste licence-payers money? And why is there always 2 of them each saying 1 sentence each? Can they not string 2 sentences together? What happened to Auto cues?