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Presumably commented on by people who'd clearly never seen it until just before they were put in front of thethe camera to talk about it.

Says how much I watch those shows - waited 20 years to see the clip before finding it yesterday!

Did he then reappear the next night or was he never seen again? 

I know his stint was fairly short lived and Lucy did a lot of that era alone

Don't know about the immediate aftermath but he did return - only to leave again a few months later.

IIRC, Anthony H had joined off the back of 24 Hour Party People (great film) and Granada Reports was being soundly beaten in the ratings by North West Tonight (and his mate, Gordon Burns) at this point.

Not sure whether it was his intention to stay for long but he left quietly - and it hadn't done much for ratings either way.

Lucy and Anthony H had both done the programme solo regularly at that point - and it continued when Tony Morris joined upon the September 2003 revamp (didn't do the first night, though - he could only appear briefly on a live OB because his final edition of Inside Out was going out the same night on BBC1)

Think it was only when they got the corporate set in the ITV plc era that solo presentation stopped.

As for Anthony H, he still did some non-news work for Granada (when they still had a few local programmes) but then freelanced for the Beeb as host of the Politics Show's North West opt* and weekend shows for Radio Manchester and XFM (when it was local).

One of those many books about Anthony H mentions the irony of his final words at the end of his last broadcast about handing back to "some place called London". RIP.

* Now I come to think of it, he had also done a stint on Granada's Sunday Supplement before going back to news.