a new studio and graphics and a new presenting team consisting of Claudia Winkleman and Colin Paterson. 7 October – The BBC announce that Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen will succeed Carol Smillie as the presenter of Changing Rooms. 10 October – Channel 4 announces that Brookside will lose its prime time weeknight slot and will be condensed into a 90-minute weekly episode airing on Saturday afternoons. The changes will take place from 30 November and spark fears it could be axed when its contract comes up for renewal in 2003. 13 October The Independent Television Commission rejects more than 160 viewer complaints that scenes depicting a gay kiss between two police officers on The Bill which aired at 8pm were not appropriate viewing before the watershed. BBC One airs Mr Trebus: A Life of Grime, a 60-minute programme paying tribute to Edmund Trebus, a compulsive hoarder who became famous after featuring in the first series of A Life of Grime in 1999 who died the previous month. Stanley Kubrick's controversial 1971 film A Clockwork Orange receives its British terrestrial television debut on Channel 4. 16 October – ITV's two largest companies, Carlton and Granada agree the terms of a £2.6bn merger deal. 17 October – BBC News 24 chief political correspondent Nick Robinson is appointed as ITN's political editor, replacing John Sergeant who retires at the end of the year. 18 October – Staff at a St Helens supermarket start a petition after Channel 4's announcement that Brookside will lose its weeknight episodes from 30 November. 19 October – The top ten greatest Britons is revealed ahead of a BBC Two series to choose the greatest Briton. The top ten is as follows: Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Winston Churchill, Oliver Cromwell, Charles Darwin, Diana, Princess of Wales, Queen Elizabeth I, John Lennon, Horatio Nelson, Isaac Newton, and William Shakespeare. 20 October – BBC Two's motoring series Top Gear is relaunched with a brand new format. 22 October – Former Hear'Say band member Myleene Klass famously breaks down during an appearance on The Frank Skinner Show while recalling how she was verbally abused when she went to buy an ironing board from Argos. 27 October – London Weekend Television broadcast their final day after 34 years on the air. A modern-day recreation of a 1970s-style startup is shown in the early morning and just after midnight a montage of LWT presentation over the years