Bong: New look News At Ten returns with Sir Trevor back at the helm

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Not only will Sir Trevor McDonald be fronting the programme. The bongs of Big Ben will be back, together with the familiar theme tune. And the presenters will be sitting down.

ITV bosses hope the broadcast's traditional approach will win back viewers as they go head to head with the BBC's Ten O'Clock News.

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Mark Austin, Julie Etchingham and Sir Trevor McDonald are ready and waiting for the return of News at Ten

The "And Finally" item at the end of the programme will also be revived while the opening title sequence from the late 1980s has been updated for a new century.

The camera will zoom in on the Earth and fly over the Thames before focussing on Big Ben as the bongs strike.

Sir Trevor, his new co-presenter Julie Etchingham and veteran Mark Austin will then be seen seated behind a desk.

Sir Trevor, 68, who retired in December 2005 after 32 years with ITN, has declined to say how long he would remain at News at Ten.

But there is speculation that he will stay long enough to re-establish the programme.

News at Ten launched in 1967 but was moved to 11pm in 1999 to enable ITV to screen movies and major sports events uninterrupted. Viewers deserted in droves and it was revived in 2001.

Since 2004, however, it has been shown at 10.30pm.

Sir Trevor said such "messing around" had been disastrous for the programme.