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(07-03-2024, 03:02 PM)NickyS Wrote: Didn't quite know where to post this but some sad news from Scotland. Nick Sheridan has died. He presented a variety of BBC Scotland programmes.
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Very sad news indeed, especially at such a young age.
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Very sad indeed. He also worked for RTÉ prior to joining the BBC. May he rest in peace.
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Fatima Manji is leaving Channel 4 News
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Darren McCaffrey is returning to Sky News as part of the Westminster team.
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(22-03-2024, 01:35 PM)TMD_24 Wrote: Darren McCaffrey is returning to Sky News as part of the Westminster team.
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That’s good news. He’s an excellent journalist. Judging by his social media accounts he’s been travelling the world since he left GB News.
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Network politics reporter Peter Saull has been appointed as the BBC East Midlands political editor.
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Robin Brant is leaving BBC News.
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USA: Don Alhart, the current Guinness record holder for longest-tenured newscaster in the world (a record he held twice, in 2016 and 2023), has announced he is retiring from anchor duties at Sinclair’s Rochester station WHAM 13, after a long, 58-year career in the station. His final newscast will be June 6.
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His career has been made mostly in Rochester, starting out at WROC before moving to WOKR (now WHAM), and has worked most of the station’s newscasts, being the foremost constant in the station.
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Only just saw this, but the BBC's Andrew Harding has recently left his role as Africa Correspondent after many a year, and is now based in Paris.
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Garry Richardson is to step down as the sports presenter on the Today programme in the Autumn.
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