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Although he showed himself up to be a bit of a tit in more recent years (subjective opinion) I still think he was one of the finest news presenters this country ever had, and was a great loss to ITN when he left.

Whilst not my choice of word, I’d be inclined to agree. He used to be great entertainment value on Twitter during his ITV News days and was very great at responding to tweets about News presentation in general. I haven’t followed him since he returned to the platform and subsequently joined GB News, but from what I saw he became opinionated on both Twitter and GBN. Though his professional style did transfer well onto GBN from what I’ve seen. (Again, not much of it.) 

But I cannot underestimate his impact on television news in this country, and it certainly feels like the end of an era. Even though he’s long since left ITN, there’s pretty much none of the old guard there anymore. 

At a national level, the only person I can think  of who’s been on our screens regularly since the 1980’s and still on is Kay Burley.