This week I’ve been at Five News, which is produced by Sky News and based in the same building.

The difference in terms of what makes up a Five News bulletin compared to a Sky News bulletin is stark: there is hardly any international news and the stories are much lighter and fun. Despite these differences I’ve had a great time working there and got heavily involved.

On Monday I did two interviews which were used in the 5pm bulletin. The first was with Rich Cline, a film critic, on the news that Harry Potter is set to overtake James Bond as the highest grossing film franchise of all time.

The second interview was with Leigh Purves, a showbiz journalist. This was for a piece on David Beckham and the travails he has experienced since his return to LA Galaxy from AC Milan.

For the rest of the week I’ve been office bound – one of my colleagues remarked how quiet it was – but I still managed to set up plenty of interviews, move stories along, help the planning desk out with research and pitch ideas.

I also spent some time in the gallery watching the 5pm show and also shadowed Simon Vigar as he put together a package on some very generous children.

One story I worked on this week was regarding lottery winners who have not necessarily experienced happiness as a result of their windfall.

I read up on some cases and managed to track a number of them down. One of them was Mark Gardiner, who won £11 million in 1995 and was happy to be interviewed for the piece. He is being interviewed on Monday and it should air sometime in the near future.

On Monday it will be three years until the 2012 Olympics starts. To mark that date I arranged an interview with Rachel Christie, niece of Linford, who has just won Miss England and is aiming to compete in the games, to talk about how she is preparing for them. That is on Monday and fingers crossed it will air in that day’s show.

Edit: I’ve uploaded the swine flu package I mentioned in my last blog post to the site. You can listen to it here.