Showbiz I would like to be emailed about offers, event and updates from Evening Standard. Read our privacy notice . ITV reporter Lucy Meacock tearfully announced she will leave Granada Reports after 36 years as the main presenter on the show.
Meacock, 64, who began her broadcasting career at Tyne Tees TV , presents the regional news programme, based in Salford , Greater Manchester , alongside Gamal Fahnbulleh, who became her co-host in January 2021. She said: “This has been one of the most difficult decisions I have ever made. “But the time is right to move on now.
For me it has always been the best job in the world, with the best people in the world, in the best region in the world! “I am very grateful that I was given this job so many years ago. I have always tried my hardest to make a positive contribution and I hope I will be remembered with some fondness in the years ahead. “It has been a complete honour and privilege to serve the people of this region and I will always have the interests of the North West at heart.
“A big thank you to all the people who have appeared on the programme over the years, sometimes when they have been facing some very tough challenges.” She added: “I’d also like to say a heartfelt thank you to the wonderful people who I have worked with in more than 40 years in TV and thank you to our viewers who have been kind enough to invite us into their homes. “We have really appreciated that.
I have often been overwhelmed by the though.