He often retires early, and has been known to be in bed by six or seven o'clock in the evening.

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"I asked my brother about two o'clock if he knew anyone in the area that could get to us by six o'clock, " said Johnson.

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"I was sitting about six o'clock in the living room, watching TV, and I noticed a woman walking past the window with two dogs, " she said.

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As I said in my piece for the six o'clock news, Chancellor Merkel had less to say yesterday about how to resolve the crisis that's happening now.

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We were made to wait in there, and this was six o'clock on the evening, and he didn't get a bed until about eight o'clock on that night.

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After a few undistinguished months of Reading Aloud on the Six O'Clock News, he became a presenter in the mid-80s, working first on the regional news programme London Plus (known within the building as "Sod Off Kent") and then on the BBC's Breakfast Time.

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The bulletin became a story itself in 1988, when as Sue Lawley and Nicholas Witchell hosted the Six O'Clock News, the studio was invaded by a group of women protesting against a law which prevented councils from promoting homosexuality.

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In September 1984 he was, with Sue Lawley, one of the founding presenters of BBC's Six O'Clock News.

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