How to get BBC …

Having a smart speaker means you can get BBC News whenever you want by asking your device to: "Play BBC News".

The service works on:

The BBC does not charge you to access smart speaker content and offers its services without cost to all UK smart speaker platforms.

If you are using Amazon Alexa then you'll have access to more features.

When you link your BBC account to the skill, you can get local news, sport, and weather as part of your news update. You'll then be able to jump back and forward through local news and weather when you say: "Alexa, next" or "Alexa, previous".

You'll also be able to pause and pick up where you left off when you say: "Alexa, pause" and "Alexa, resume".

You can add a roundup of the news, sport, and weather where you are, to your news bulletin by linking the BBC News skill to your BBC account.

You can set this up now by

. Or you can listen out for the message inviting you to sign in at the start of the news update.

And to make sure you're hearing news from your chosen postcode area

You can also access BBC local news directly from more than 40 stations across England, as well as the BBC's national services for Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales.

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These are a collection of different tasks you can trigger by saying one word. For example, you could wake up at the same time each morning to the latest news bulletin, your local news and weather update or your favourite BBC radio station.

BBC news services can be

you choose to create.

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