Journalist and Programme Editor at @ITVNews. Maidenhead native. Yorkshire forged. London based. 'Let's make it happen.’ Any views mine; retweets ≠ endorsements.
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Sir Cliff - always the king of the calendars - seems to have given up on hiring a photographer this year? They look like throwaway phone pictures off the family WhatsApp.
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A joint three-year investigation by ITV News and the Guardian reveals allegations David Walliams preyed on teenage girls as young as 15
Walliams denies all allegations including criminal activity
Read and watch the full investigation here: itv.com/news/2026-11-10/davi…
This was referenced on-air at the end of Monday’s PM by @EvanHD (“…that’s your brief weather”), with what almost sounded like a nod to Jeremy Paxman’s short-lived Newsnight forecasts.
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“We cannot allow a situation in which people get to dictate what’s published with threats of suicide”
Staff writer at the Atlantic, Helen Lewis, on the case of a celebrity who asked the High Court to permanently prevent two news organisations from publishing his identity and allegations of sexual misconduct.
#Newsnight
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Michigan's Democratic candidate for Senate Abdul El-Sayed confronted @jamesmatthewsky, telling him he wouldn't answer his questions as he wants "zero" votes in the UK.
Watch the heated exchange between the two.
Watch our live coverage of the US midterms➡️ trib.al/BikRSb2
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Regional news at 6.30pm continues to regularly outperform anything else on TV
Biggest audiences on Monday on both BBC1 & ITV1 were for teatime regional news shows, 4m for BBC version & 2.4m for ITV…will change on ITV when catch up viewing added, not so sure about BBC where regional news well ahead of other programmes, but still... Ratings data @Digital_i_
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Alton Towers closes World of David Walliams bbc.in/4sXvGIF
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Man caught in car with £14k of drugs as a lamb ate chips in the back seat avoids jail bbc.in/3W9CI0z
Well researched and fabulously illustrated essay by
@kayaburgess (thetimes.com/uk/religion/art…)
– read among his excellent reporting of the dire situation facing Southwell Minster (thetimes.com/uk/religion/art…) – as churches battle for funding, not helped by Places of Worship Renewal Fund.
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11.2m viewers see Romesh & ‘Bash’ win extended Celebrity Traitors final on BBC1 last night, just ahead of 2025 final, 11.1m, & the biggest live tv audience (ex-world Cup) since Gavin & Stacey finale. 5.6m for Uncloaked. Ratings data from @Digital_i_
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Is Bradley Walsh's new Channel 4 quiz show actually a massive television hoax?
Something very strange is happening at Channel 4.
On Sunday at 9pm, Bradley hosts Million Pound Shot, a one-off quiz where three contestants compete for £1 million.
But is everything as it seems? 🧵
Understanding the difference between 'plain garlic bread' and 'plane garlic bread'.
H/t @TheGrocer thegrocer.co.uk/news/just-ea…
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"Choral Evensong’s survival is a broadcasting phenomenon that scarcely seems possible in our modern world of gnat-sized attention spans, supposed religious decline and a general indifference bordering on contempt for so many venerable British traditions." thetimes.com/culture/music/a…
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"As Sam Jackson, Radio 3’s controller, has said, it’s impossible to imagine a commercial broadcaster lugging an outside broadcast unit and its staff to a different city each Wednesday afternoon to record a choir singing psalms and canticles. It just wouldn’t happen" @classicjacko
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What’s worse than parking in a disabled bay without a Blue Badge?
Parking simultaneously across *two* disabled bays without a Blue Badge.
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Charlie Maynard’s resignation is “the most Lib Dem leadership coup attempt ever, in the sense that he currently seems to be unavailable for comment, which is I think a new peak in Lib Dem coups”, says ex-Spad @Sean_Kemp on @MattChorley’s show.