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.
Seven Hills co-founder Michael Hayman has been appointed as Chair of the Small Business Charter. Developed by the Chartered Association of Business Schools, Lord Young, and the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (now Department of Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy), the Small Business Charter......
Strava, the world’s largest sports community, has released its annual Year In Sport report – revealing the 2021 activity trends from a global community of 95 million athletes, and a total of 1.8 billion public uploads over the past 12 months. The report was launched at......
Bringing together more than 2500 virtual guests on its event microsite and 16,000 on LinkedIn live, the Unilever Future of Work Summit connected people from every corner of the planet for an inspiring series of conversations about how we foster a better future of work......
In November, Silicon Valley Comes to the UK brought global tech leaders and the business community from Silicon Valley together at its annual summit, connecting people in the UK and around the world. The final day, Global Game-Changers, was chaired by Seven Hills co-founder Michael......
Plexal, the innovation company founded by Delancey, has announced the 108 cyber entrepreneurs, startups, SMEs and scaleups joining the Cyber Runway accelerator – a programme designed to address some of the biggest challenges facing cybersecurity, such as diversity and inclusion and regional representation, and support the most promising innovators at......
Gen X or Gen Z – it’s time to start listening to each other, says Michael Hayman in his latest Country & Town House column. Talking to Generation Z is like eaves-dropping on the future,’ says generations expert, Dr Eliza Filby. The reason being that......
Cephas Williams – campaigner, photographer and speaker committed to centralising Black representation and uniting communities and organisations to deliver long lasting change – has partnered with Landsec to showcase Portrait of Black Britain, a project to create the largest collection of photographic portraits of Black people living......
M Squared, the Glasgow photonics and quantum technology developer, has joined Europe’s Copernicus programme – an ambitious Earth observation initiative headed by the European Commission (EC) in partnership with the European Space Agency. The programme provides accurate, timely and easily accessible information to improve the......
In celebration of Black History Month we’ve been reflecting on some of our Change Makers podcast guests’ most inspiring stories and achievements, and the change they hope to bring for our generation and those in the future. From Cephas Williams, founder of The Black British Network, sharing why the most important......