Batman55 wrote:
It appears the BBC rely on post codes, often something happening in
what everyone else would think of as South London e.g Brixton, but
they call south west because it is SW3 or because adjacent Herne Hill
is SE24, it becomes SE London. They have no actual geographical
knowledge.

The occasional description by the local news of something happening in
'Middlesex' is equally baffling, due to that county ceasing to exist 44
years ago. And as it would cover nearly half of their transmission area,
it is not very geographically helpful either.

To give BBC London their due, the recent coverage of the gas (and
electricity) failures in East Barnet has correctly been described as
north London.

However National Grid was totally confused about the location in their
press releases, stating that they were liaising with the emergency
planning department in Bedfordshire, then Hertfordshire before finally
(correctly) settling on the London Borough of Barnet.