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David Dimbleby will present the results programmes for the local elections on Friday 5 June and the European Election programme on Sunday 7 June.

On Friday 5 June, David Dimbleby will be presenting the first results on the BBC's News At One (most of the results will not be declared until the day after the elections on 4 June).

Then David will present a special results programme on BBC One from 1.40 to 2.10pm, including a projected national share for the election from psephologist Professor John Curtice.

Coverage will continue on the BBC News channel, BBC Radio 4 and BBC Radio 5 Live and on the BBC News website.

The European Elections programme will be on BBC Two from 9.00pm on Sunday 7 June presented by David Dimbleby and Jeremy Vine. David Dimbleby will also join the BBC One News At Ten to set the scene for the night ahead before returning to BBC Two at 11.00pm.

The BBC's team of correspondents including Political Editor Nick Robinson and European Editor Mark Mardell will be interpreting and analysing the results. With a giant map of the continent Jeremy Vine's virtual reality graphics will show how the results will impact on the new European Parliament as well as showing the context of the results on a mid-term Labour government.

With an increased focus on Prime Minister Gordon Brown's popularity, the range of programmes will show just how well he's done and, with a broad range of political interviews, just what this might mean for politics in Britain in the future.

The BBC will be at every regional count declaring on the Sunday, bringing the declarations to audiences as they happen. Correspondents will also be reporting live from the major European capitals.

The Radio 4 European Election Special starts at 9.00pm on Sunday 7 June, presented by Jim Naughtie with Jonny Dymond in Brussels. The programme will feature analysis and debate as the results come in from the UK and the rest of the EU. Reporters will be on hand across the continent bringing the latest developments as they happen.

On 5 Live, there's a special European results programme on 7 June from 9.00pm to 1.00am, presented by Peter Allen and John Pienaar, with results and reaction from around the EU and regular updates from Brussels. The station will take calls from listeners across the UK in the big 5 Live phone-in.

BBC News will be running a comprehensive multi-media results service across interactive TV, Ceefax and the News website for the local elections from Thursday evening, including a live online map showing council results across England.

There will be coverage of events as they unfold on Friday and Sunday with live updating pages, together with correspondent analysis and Nick Robinson's blog. For European results on Sunday, the website will again feature a live results service, the centrepiece of which will be an interactive EU Parliament graphic.

The multimedia coverage will be provided by BBC News correspondents based in bureaux across Europe.

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