Samira Ahmed, Sarah Hughes, Sky News
• Sky News won a pair of gongs at the 51st Monte Carlo Television Festival’s Golden Nymph Awards for the Best TV News Item – Battle for Zawiya and Best 24-Hour News Programme – Mubarak Steps Down.
• The Daily Mail is reporting Samira Ahmed stepped down from Channel 4 News after she was told her hair was too scruffy for TV.
Sources said she had been called into a room so bosses could point out on pictures of her what was wrong with her hair.
Channel 4 denies the allegation saying they struggled to see how her hair was any different to that of many of the other presenters used by the programme.
• Congratulations to Sky News presenter Sarah Hughes, who got married this afternoon. Sarah will return to Sky News in three weeks time as [[Sarah Hewson]].
Voters in England and Wales went to the polls on Thursday 2nd May to elect councillors, mayors and police commissioners.
Voters in England and Wales will go to polls on Thursday 2nd May to elect councillors, mayors and police commissioners.
Sky News aired its final Climate Show this weekend. Presenter Tom Heap said at the end of this week’s programme:
Sky News presenter Wilf Frost is heading back to CNBC. He’ll return to New York City for 4 weeks per
Friday Night with Niall Paterson has been cancelled for this week following the news that Catherine, Princess of Wales, is
Darren McCaffrey is making a return to Sky News. He left the organisation in 2018 to join Euronews before moving
