Andrew Burdett
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Journalist at @ITVNews . Maidenhead native. Yorkshire forged. London based. 'Let's make it happen.’ Any views mine; retweets ≠ endorsements.
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Obsessed with
@LindsayHoyle_MP
’s photoshoot up the Elizabeth Tower this morning. It’s to mark the clocks going back this weekend.
[PHOTOS:
@Jess__Taylor__
/
@UKParliament
]
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Interesting little behind-the-scenes sequence, from the moment
@BBCNews
bosses gave
@thehuwedwards
the go-ahead, to break the news of the Queen’s death.
[From
@amolrajan
’s
#BBC100
report last night.]
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This has all gone very meta: Radio 4 on Radio 1 on Radio 4. 🤯
@BBCR1
@BBCRadio4
@gregjames
@CLNicholls
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I see the Emperor of Rome has a new book out: a sequel to his Mary Beard heroine trilogy.
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Nick Newman lampoons the
@Telegraph
’s apparent ‘scoop’ yesterday, on p1 of today’s Sunday Times.
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"GB News has suspended Dan Wootton following comments made on his programme by Laurence Fox.
"And if you've heard of neither of those people, consider yourself to be blessed."
–
@TherealNihal
, delivering this afternoon's breaking news on
@BBC5live
, with typical class.
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It hardly needed this extended sequence, of him carrying the sticks, to prove what you already know:
@ChrisMasonBBC
is clearly a good egg. 🥚
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We often say that where ITN differs from our rivals is our nimbleness. We move fast and trust each other: to pull together and make things happen. So when the power failed in London, our team quickly converged on Leeds, ensuring the show(s) could go on. Proud to work at
@itvnews
.
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Stephen Bear: “You should be innocent until proven guilty…”
Journalists: “…You HAVE been proven guilty.”
Brilliant moment in
@BeccaBarry
’s report, when she and others swiftly and forthrightly rebut his nonsense (this was him arriving for his sentencing).
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If, like me, you’ve neglected developments in
#Ukraine
in recent days, here’s a really good catch-up courtesy of
@BBCRosAtkins
.
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Absolutely love
@CliveMyrieBBC
’s laugh in this, when
@MarkUrban01
was nowhere to be seen. 😂
#BBCNewsTen
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@DanielHewittITV
@itvnews
Another sighting in Victoria, where a bus windscreen is smashed.
Loose horses around London Victoria station, collides with a bus
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Sad to see the departure of
@Linds_bluepeter
today: perhaps the last of her line, of a particular type of
#BluePeter
presenter. She has been an ambassador for that important programme, through a period of immense change, and deserves to be remembered as one of its finest stars.
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📺📣 Telly-geeks: We just tried out a new-style
#NewsAtTen
promo, in the middle of
#ImACelebrity
(tx: 21:34:48 on ITV). It won't always be appropriate, but where possible we want to use it: to promote both our flagship show, and the on-the-ground journalism it contains.
@itvnews
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@fordlltwm
@WolfJHavoc
@mollygos
On that theme… Allow me to introduce you to this splendid Medieval Wall and Door in
@LeCreusetUK
’s
#StAlbans
shop.
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PERSONAL NEWS: I’m leaving
@ITVCalendar
after 15 months, to start at
@ITVNews
nationally on Monday. Proud to have worked with such a terrific team in Leeds, and excited for what’s next.
At the end of my final Late bulletin last night,
@ITVGaynorBarnes
had an on-screen surprise…
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Fascinating panel discussion, led by
@CharleneWhite
, on issues of race in today’s Britain. Voices inc:
@HackneyAbbott
@FamilyLawGuruUK
@Naomi_Kellman
.
Could have listened to much more than shown on
#ITVNewsAtTen
— luckily there’s a 25min version online:
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Just when you think there’s no new humour to be had in Zoom calls, the
#LawyerCat
purrs into view.
“I’m not a cat,” Rod Ponton insisted, much to
@tombradby
’s amusement last night.
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@PaulBrandITV
Telegram and Signal are messaging apps. But – yeah – it would be funnier if the request were indeed referring to outdated communications methods; eg semaphore, carrier pigeon etc…
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Discovered something AMAZING today. This man’s called David Buck and he’s basically living every little boy’s dream… Forgive the gender-stereotype, but when we were kids, me and my mates would have given anything to have a REAL-LIFE TRAIN SET at the bottom of the garden. /1
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“The last time this happened the Prime Minister was Winston Churchill, and most of the people in the room would have known Queen Victoria. It’s an astonishing span of time.” –
@hardmanr
.
#AccessionCouncil
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Council meeting catch-up is my new favourite thing.
“WHO TOLD ME TO ‘SHUT UP’?”
Here’s the esteemed of
@RBWM
(my local authority) giving
#HandforthParishCouncil
a run for their money on Thursday night.
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@DrAmirKhanGP
Can vouch for
#MamaKhan
’s cooking! Fondly remember joining
@JonMitchellITV
/
@Camera_Mikey
/
@AdamFowlerITV
last September for her one-off ‘Calendar Curry’!
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What’s odd is that, despite the Downing Street Flickr account () now containing almost 20,000 official photographs, these ones were never released on that site.
So did someone at No10 *actively decide* not to post these taxpayer-funded images to Flickr?
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A deserved, instantaneous standing ovation for the (final) finale of
#TalkingAboutJamie
. I liked it the first time; I LOVED it the second.
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Quite a moment.
MPs give a standing ovation to the Ukraine ambassador who is attending today's prime minister's questions
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The first time we saw (most of) them is when
@PaulBrandITV
revealed them on
@ITVNews
:
They were, a few days later, also published within an appendix to the Sue Grey report:
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I get more BBC News notifications than I get texts from my wife.
(This is just from the last week: I count more than 70, and there’s STILL no way to opt out of everything except actual ‘breaking’ alerts.)
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On Paul Davies’s last day at
@ITN
, I was honoured to edit together this extended conversation between him and
@TomBradby
.
“Almost anywhere you go in the world, you’ll find good if you look for it,” he reflects after 39 years: “There’s hope out there.”
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@glyndebourne
Very sad to see this. Wonder how many people that might have had the chance to experience a Glyndebourne opera now won’t (not to mention the cast and creatives for whom the Tour was a path to the Festival). Devastating, and detrimental, effect of ACE cuts.
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This is bad. And then, amazingly, he makes it worse, changing the pronoun from "she" to "that".
Jesus. Trump defends against woman's accusation of sexual assault by saying, "She would not be my first choice."
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It might be above board (because it was declared), but it’s a bit disappointing to see HOW Michelle took her
#Countryfile
calendar comp winning picture. “There’s just nowhere you could take this picture in the wild. You’re just not going to find a harvest mouse inside an apple.”
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Yorkshire’s Chuckle Brothers joked about the revamped afternoon schedule.
“For the students, this layout’s going to throw them,” points out
@peter_levy
: “They’ve got to wait until two o’clock for Doctors.”
@Hudsonweather
: “It’s amazing. They’ll be able to get an extra lie-in.”
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This is pretty unprecedented for us, I think?! Two top correspondents for the price of one, on tonight’s News At Ten.
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One thing that has continually fascinated me about Partygate, and Downing Street more broadly, is the role of official photographers.
Boris Johnson says the very presence of a snapper (at both his birthday, and SpAd departure, gatherings) supports his claim of ‘innocence’.
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@cleanfeed_ttvr
Pretty sure the Newsnight team must do this deliberately each night. I mean… surely, that’s the only logical explanation?!
But I do love that these such moments allow a chance to hear
@CliveMyrieBBC
’s deep, rich, bassy laugh.
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Is this the biggest scandal at ITN since
@theJeremyVine
’s decaf revelations?
All three waste slots currently empty into… the same bin?!
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A whimsical aside: the British military’s highly synchronised marching makes for a rather satisfying waveform.
#PrincePhilipFuneral
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(Indebted to YTV staff, who’ve gone out of their way to accommodate us, with an unfailing can-do attitude. And to colleagues back in London: who stuck it out in the dark at Grays Inn Road; who decamped to temporary offices across Westminster; or who worked from home as required.)
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Small career milestone yesterday: four news stories, for which I wrote scripts and edited pictures, went to air on network (national)
@itvnews
news. Today, six more. I’m thoroughly enjoying my ITN attachment. Big thanks to
@FredianiITV
and the team for making me so welcome.
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Apropos nothing, just remembered that time Kirsty Walk did Thriller at the end of
@BBCNewsnight
. Odd.
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The challenge: how to illustrate the long wait for the
#SueGrayReport
.
My idea: film scenes in today’s glorious sunshine, that match perfectly with grey January GVs we have.
Liam Ayres meticulously shot this. And it was
@STVKathryn
’s super idea to open with out-of-vision SOTs.
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Love
@CaptainTomMoore
?
Want another active nonagenarian? (Obvs.)
Meet Margaret Payne, 90, who plans to climb her staircase 282 times.
That's equivalent to the height of Suilven, which she first scaled aged 15, in 1944, when she was evacuated to Scotland.
[PHOTO:
@PA
Wire]
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Graham Norton on how the BBC is taken for granted.
http://t.co/2PycOlXMez
http://t.co/0Vs2tm1vWa
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Goodness: this is extremely tough to watch. Not afraid to admit it made me well up too. 😢
Harry Gration was in the ‘god tier’ of regional news titans (he only retired 18 months ago, having been the face of Look North for decades). He will be much missed.
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@rhwilson83
@theJeremyVine
@willnorman
@betterstreetskc
You’ve nailed the deafening “whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa”.
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I've never looked particularly young. So rather flattered, and a little taken aback, when a cold-caller at the door just now asked: "Is your mum or dad in?"
He seemed rather unwilling to believe both that I, an adult, live in my own home AND have the right not to buy his patios.
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Sweet-talked our ITV colleagues to share their lovely rooftop view, in time for the
#Flypast
. A very special moment.
#PlatinumJubilee
#HM70
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To York, this afternoon (my second visit in a week); in search of High Church worship. And there, at
@York_Minster
, the most wonderful of Advent Processions: a truly divine atmosphere with heavenly music and the stunning sight of a vast nave illuminated solely by candlelight. 🙌
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@UkuleleKev
Starting watching a few seconds in, and when the camera panned round I thought (just for a moment): ‘Blimey, Chris Martin’s aged a bit since I last saw him.’
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@christopherhope
No. It’s pure perfection.
Seems to become ever more beautiful, every time I hear it.
Loved Matthew Woodward’s wide shot tonight, which really accentuated that special moment when the orchestra members stand up in unison. Great stuff.
#LastNightOfTheProms
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#ThisIsMyHouse
is bonkers.
“And yet, it’s fantastic. It works SO well. It is instantly compelling. There are so many interpersonal dynamics at play that your lockdown mind, so long stripped of group stimuli, is both dizzied and awakened.”
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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The first on-screen appearance of the new BBC News At One studio, as the programme moved to an hour-long format incorporating the local news and weather.
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As the producer back in London turning this around for
@ITVNews
, I can’t tell you how much pride it gave me to type ‘Furze Platt Senior School’ into the name-straps.
My old school, on the telly! And a sweet tale about this
@Furze_Platt
Year 7 footy fan.
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At 6:30pm a special
@ITVEveningNews
programme live from The Mall, on the eve of the
#PlatinumJubilee
celebrations.
@NightingaleITV
presents, with
@ChrisShipITV
,
@RhysWilliamsTV
, and
@RishiDavda
providing a royal roundup. Join us for that and the rest of the day's news.
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Geeky, pedantic little thread.
But congratulations to
@OctoberFilms
for using the old BBC logo on the end-board of their high-profile new Laura Kuenssberg documentary,
#StateOfChaos
.
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After tonight’s shock news, bit lost with who’s in and who’s out of
#TheArchers
. (Perhaps
@TheCiderShedPod
can advise?!)
I think: June Spencer (Peggy Woolley) retired in July, and Graham Blockey (Robert Snell) sadly died in November, but neither has been written out yet?
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"Let us shine with the light of your love." Inspiring, comforting, spiritually refreshing service for
#Candlemas
at
@sheffcath
.
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Oh, and then there was this once the interview had finished.
“When I saw [Jeremy Hunt] there I just said ‘you’ve got a hell of a job, the best of luck’. And what I really wanted to say was ‘f**k you’.”
Except there are no asterisks on live radio…
#MiriamMargolyes
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.
@PaulChuckle2
at the start of tonight’s exclusive
@ITVcalendar
interview: “I felt I had to come on here because you’ve been so good to me and Barry over the years. And you’re part of our family, really.”
#ChuckleBrothers
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As BBC forecasters go,
@Hudsonweather
’s wit and warmth is quite unparalleled.
An unorthodox ending to tonight’s Look North (the first in their new studio), but this interaction with
@AmyGarciaUK
in the closing shot made me smile. 👞
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Alarming break-up on the feed from Big Ben, at the start of the
@BBCRadio4
Midnight News. It affected both chimes (in the moments before midnight) and bongs (at 0000).
Needless to say:
@chinaysa
’s voice was perfectly clear (as ever).
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Great to have tonight's
@ITVEveningNews
weather forecast with
@LucyWeather
, live from the shark tank at
@London_Aquarium
- and meeting the characterful penguins (thankfully in a separate part of the complex...).
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A remarkable story of humanity told by
@MargieFrew
, who’s coordinating community donations of aid and medical supplies to
#Ukraine
, from her West London home.
[via
@Anja_Popp
/
@Channel4News
]
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There’s a space on the ITV Evening News each night for something that we might otherwise struggle to include; important stories, which aren’t part of the day’s main agenda.
@SamHolderTV
’s report, on hoarders, is a brilliant example, sensitively told.
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Down comes the fence, revealing behind the new face of
#Maidenhead
town centre.
@MaidenheadAds
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Clearing through some old copies of the Sunday Times Magazine, I'm struck by these photographs, from the brilliant
@David_Yarrow
, of emperor penguins in Antartica and giraffes at Lake Amboseli, Kenya. More here:
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As so often,
@tombradby
’s reactions speak for so many. Quite freaky to see such lifelike humanoids, as featured in
@debiedwarditv
’s report on China’s role in the AI race.
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But, for many, it’s the train that is the best bit. And David speaks with genial pride when he acknowledges the audaciousness of his hobby — but points out the joy others share in it. “Look at all those faces,” he says: “All smiling. That’s what trains are all about.” 12/ends
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On
#ITVNewsAtTen
with
@TomBradby
(at 22:00:00 - no, we can't believe it either!):
#OckendenReport
+
@BenChapmanITV
+
@BeccaBarry
+
@EmilyMorganITV
#Ukraine
+
@RohitKachrooITV
#ShaneWarneMemorial
+
@ChloeKeedyITV
And:
#DomesticAbusePlan
+
@AnushkaAsthana
#Partygate
+
@CarlDinnen
+
@PaulBrandITV
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"Just when I thought it couldn't get any worse", writes my friend who was today given his Butlins Christmas uniform.
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Reminded of
@FloraEGill
’s beautiful eulogy: “Sometimes a safe, easy restaurant is just what you want, what you need. When it’s late, you’re tired, you’re in an unknown location or you’re emotionally spent, the familiarity of a Pizza Express is embracing.”
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When
@SecondMentions
becomes First Mentions: ‘wonky-walking tearaways’, ‘hairy clawed nippers’… it’s not until the subheadline we finally see the word ‘crab’.
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Just joyous.
@TonyBlackburn
: “We are back, right here. We’ve taken it over until… well, it says here nine-thirty. Hahaha, you must be joking. We’ve locked the doors; the management are all locked in; the Director General’s in his office, he can’t get out. We’ve taken it over.”
King of the airwaves
@tonyblackburn
has crashed the
@BBCRadio2
Breakfast Show to celebrate the anniversary of pirate radio
#R2Pirates
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In praise of autumn, the best of seasons: ”I like returning to the warm glow of the front door, on a cold, drizzly evening, that magical moment of homecoming.”
@niall_gooch
in
@unherd
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Waterloo's
#TheSidings
is "fully open to the public, even though you feel that maybe you’re not supposed to be down here in this empty void", writes
@IanVisits
.
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@joncstone
@ReadingCouncil
@GarethDennis
Kind of amazing that the architects (to whom the artist’s impression is credited) were able to get away with using a Google Street View screenshot as the basis for it.
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Emerged from New Palace Yard first-thing this morning to see the gun carriage being unloaded, and – I’m not exaggerating – even seeing it on the back of a low-loader took my breath away. Expect many such spellbinding moments today. We may never see anything quite like it again.
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When, a year ago,
@tommacwriter
showed
@jamieandfifi
the first run-through of the musical he inspired, “He just went: ‘Wow… this is my life, and it’s going to be out there.’”
#JamieLondon
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A young Taylor Swift does her ‘Minnesota soccer mom’ impression, in 2009.
A gem from
@GregJames
’s excellent Rewinder series, mining BBC archives. “I do love this, listening back to this. Nobody knew, nobody called it, that she would one day be the biggest pop star in the world.”
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