Radio presenter Nikki Bayley is set to wake up Juice 107.2 listeners with a revamped breakfast show.

Comedian Terry Garoghan, 52, from Saltdean, has been axed from the show after 12 months at the helm as bosses do not think he is edgy enough.

Miss Bayley, 36, who has fronted the station's Drive Time show for the past 16 months, will present the new breakfast show from September 25.

Juice bosses are still deciding on the show's format but Miss Bayley, from Hove, already has some ideas.

She said: "On Drive Time, Fatboy Slim came in to do the weather for us. I love having guests in. We have the Comedy Festival and Brighton Live in the next couple of months, so hopefully we will get lots of interesting people on the breakfast show.

"I'm also hoping I'll be allowed to roam the streets to find the best breakfast in Brighton and Hove."

Nikki, a former freelance journalist, got involved with Juice when it started eight years ago.

Once a week she talked about bands and what was happening on Brighton and Hove's music scene. Her meteoric rise to the breakfast show will be the crowning achievement of her decade living in the city.

She said: "I was living in Camden, London, when I came to the Essential festival ten years ago and fell in love with Brighton. I went back to Camden on the Monday and handed in my notice on the flat and moved to Brighton a month later.

"I'm incredibly excited about the breakfast show. It's a top job, and it's brilliant to do it with a station that I started out with. It's wonderful to have really worked my way up.

"It will be the only femalefronted breakfast show on the whole of the South Coast.

Breakfast shows seem to be a very testosterone area. I'm not a girly girl but I'm not a ladette either. I won't be shouting to make a point.

"It's sad that Terry is going.

He is a Brighton and Hove treasure. But I'm incredibly excited about this opportunity for myself."

Terry Garoghan's last breakfast show will be on Friday.

His one-man show, Brighton The Musical, now in its 11th year, will return to The Dome Concert Hall, Brighton, in March.