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Ed Saunt retweeted
18 Oct 2022
A pensioner breaking down because she can’t pay her bills;
a full-time working mum scared she’ll lose her home;
an 8 week-old baby living in a flat with no heating or hot water.
This is the reality outside Westminster. The first of our special reports🧵itv.com/news/2022-10-18/toas…
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Ed Saunt retweeted
27 Jul 2022
The last time footage like this was broadcast from the NHS the politicians in government became so worried that public consent for the health service would disappear that they embarked on programme of radical reform, spending increases and targetss
27 Jul 2022
EXCL: This is the NHS as you’ve never seen it.
19 patients crammed on trolleys in corridors unable to get into a full A&E.
92 year-old May has been stuck on hers for 3 days.
Outside, ambulances queue, delayed getting to other calls.
Patients have died waiting. #ITVTonight
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ITV News at Ten: Storming of the Capitol wins the BAFTA for News Coverage #VirginMediaBAFTAs
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Ed Saunt retweeted
15 Apr 2022
This is what Joe Root means to me, as a proud member of the LGBTQ family and a lifelong cricket fan. I wasn’t a fan of his on-field decisions but things like this are bigger than sport. Moments like this made life easier for me, a sports fan, to come out. Thank you, Rooty 🏳️🌈
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Ed Saunt retweeted
31 Mar 2022
EXCLUSIVE: The government has ditched its promised ban on conversion therapy.
A briefing document leaked to @itvnews states "The PM has agreed we should not move forward with legislation to ban LGBT conversion therapy".
It breaks 4 years of promises.
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Liz - I don't know her second name
8 Mar 2022
22 year-old Simon (not his real name) says he went after positive signals from the UK government.
“Liz - I don't know her second name, the foreign secretary - says she supports British citizens going over to fight”.
He accepts he may be prosecuted.
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Ed Saunt retweeted
7 Mar 2022
What’s better than half an hour of news from @itvnews at 1830? An hour! From tonight @ITVEveningNews is 60 minutes long - don’t miss it @nightingaleitv @edsaunt
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Ed Saunt retweeted
1 Mar 2022
This woman in Kharkiv’s Freedom Square summed up a nation this morning after the missile strike at the heart of Ukraine’s second city
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Ed Saunt retweeted
1 Mar 2022
Exclusive: inside Kharkiv’s devastated Freedom Square
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Ed Saunt retweeted
21 Feb 2022
NEW: The ITV News Traineeship is now LIVE!! A brilliant opportunity to join our national and regional news teams as a trainee journalist. Apply via itvjobs.com Closing date 13th March
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Ed Saunt retweeted
24 Jan 2022
EXCLUSIVE: Boris Johnson had a birthday party during lockdown in June 2020 despite rules forbidding social gatherings indoors, ITV News has learnt.
Up to 30 staff celebrated in the cabinet room where Carrie Johnson surprised him with a cake, we're told.
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Ed Saunt retweeted
24 Jan 2022
ITV National and International Evening News at 6.30pm to become an hour long programme from March 2022. Details - bit.ly/3KD9lZZ
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Ed Saunt retweeted
10 Jan 2022
EXCL: Email obtained by @itvnews proves over 100 staff were invited to drinks party in No 10 garden at height of lockdown to “make the most of the lovely weather”.
We’re told PM and his wife attended, with staff invited to “bring your own booze!”
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Ed Saunt retweeted
17 Nov 2021
New: The Food Standards Agency has warned meat and poultry producers that a shortage of vets could impact production of turkey, pork, beef, lamb, goose etc in the run up to Christmas.
It is a legal requirement to have a vet on site at an abattoir when animals are slaughtered.
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Ed Saunt retweeted
15 Nov 2021
This piece by @iburrell is rightly full of praise for the hard work and skill of my team mate and friend @DanielHewittITV. Dan is the real deal - he really does care about the people whose lives are ruined by poor housing, despite living in one of the world's richest countries.
14 Nov 2021
Obsession with celebrity has harmed journalism – thank god for hard-nosed reporters exposing Britain’s wrongs
Thanks @iburrell and @theipaper for this profile of our ongoing @itvnews housing investigation.
inews.co.uk/opinion/columnis…
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Ed Saunt retweeted
9 Nov 2021
EXCL: 40 years after his death we have solved the mystery of the first man to die of AIDS in the UK.
Known until now as 'patient zero', finally we can call him by another name - John Eaddie.
We tell his story in a special documentary on ITV Thurs 7:30pm.
itv.com/news/2021-11-09/solv…
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Ed Saunt retweeted
13 Oct 2021
How the British dairy products in our fridges are linked to devastating deforestation in Brazil. Our investigation with @TBIJ and @UE is LIVE. Top reporting by @rupertevelyn and @PhilipSime with @Andrew_Wasley, @jeevanvasagar, @lilimendonca, @aliceross_, Zach Boren & Lucy Jordan
Revealed: Some of the UK’s most popular dairy products, including Cadbury’s chocolate, Anchor and Clover butter, Cravendale milk and Cathedral City cheddar, are being linked to destroying the Brazilian rainforest.
itv.com/news/2021-10-13/cadb…
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Ed Saunt retweeted
30 Sep 2021
I love that @itvnews keep returning to this vital theme of poor and no housing. As it affects the poorest in the main they get next to no voice in the mainstream media and govt couldn’t give much of a toss for all the ‘levelling up’ blah. Keep going @DanielHewittITV #utc
29 Sep 2021
Exc: The number of homeless families being moved out of their local area, sometimes hundreds of miles away, has risen 316% in 10 years.
England’s chronic housing shortage means 1 in 4 households in temporary accommodation have been forced out-of-area itv.com/news/2021-09-29/bori…
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Exclusive: ITV News can reveal that Hashem Abedi, the Manchester Arena bomb plotter, is refusing to co-operate with a deradicalisation programme in prison - and is being held away from other inmates over concerns he could radicalise other prisoners itv.com/news/2021-07-28/manc…
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Overheard in the newsroom
@Peston to @DanielHewittITV: “Just to be absolutely clear… that was Atomic Kitten, wasn’t it?”
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