In 1998 she joined ITN as the Media and Arts Editor for ITV News and, at the age of 27, became the youngest newscaster on British national television since ITN’s creation in 1955.
For five years she covered showbiz events around the world and hosted the Classical Brit Awards four times. She then presented ITV Lunchtime News for six years and took a leading role as an anchor in the coverage of elections, royal weddings and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Innovate Finance announced this week that British fintech is set for its best year yet, with record investment of $2.9 billion (£2.3 billion) already put into the sector in the first half of 2019. The amount represents the highest intake of investment in a half-year......
Cephas Williams is fed up with poorly-told narratives about black people. Wearing his hoodie – the iconic symbol of his movement, 56 Black Men – the campaigner and entrepreneur told Michael Hayman on Capital Conversation that now is the time to stand up and ensure black people can......
Coutts wrapped up the fifth and final of its summer regional roadshow events last week, taking its entrepreneur proposition to Manchester following visits to Bristol, Birmingham, Leeds and Newcastle throughout June and July. Each event brought together up to 100 guests made up of business......
This piece by Michael Hayman originally appeared in City A.M, see here The year is 1989. Ronald Reagan on his last day at the White House makes his farewell address. His message is one of the recovery of morale and national pride during his presidency.......
Tristram Stuart is brewing up a storm in the business world, as he looks to save our environment by turning breakfast into beer. Tristram has been a long-term environmental campaigner, particularly on the topic of the UK’s enormous food waste, and speaking to Michael Hayman......
UK-India Week last week provided multiple platforms to celebrate the winning partnership between the UK and India, with a series of events looking at opportunities for collaboration between the two countries. The week’s cornerstone event was the India Inc. Leaders’ Summit on Wednesday and Thursday at Latimer House, Buckinghamshire. The......
James and Tamara Lohan recognise that romantic weekends away aren’t for playing Scrabble. The married couple have been injecting the fun into travel ever since walking out of a Lake District spa hotel in 2001, where they had been unexpectedly weighed on check-in and put......
Tech fever gripped the capital this week during the sixth annual London Tech Week. Led by founding partners Informa, London & Partners, and Tech London Advocates, the week has grown to become a festival of more than 300 events, with 58,000 attendees participating over the......
This week, The Valuable 500 took to the stage of the United Nations #INFOCUS conference in Geneva to encourage global business leaders to recognise the importance of disability inclusion and value the 1.3 billion disabled people around the world. The event coincides with the announcement......