In 1990 he was promoted to producer of the BBC Nine O'Clock News, where he remained until he moved to Brussels in 1994 to gain further experience for BBC News. In 1996, after two years in Brussels, he returned to the UK to become the assistant editor on the BBC Nine O'Clock News, remaining with the program when it became the BBC Ten O'Clock News. From 2001 to 2003 he was an editor at the BBC News channel, and followed that by being named acting editor of the BBC Ten O'Clock News. He was then confirmed as the permanent editor of the program in March 2004. During his two years as editor of the BBC Ten O'Clock News it won two Baftas for its coverage of the Madrid Bombings and the 2005 London Tube bombings, and a Royal Television Society award for News Programme of The Year.