George Alagiah said Dame Deborah James brought 'joy' to people living with cancer in a clip that has resurfaced following his death aged 67. The BBC newsreader and foreign correspondent, who passed ...

The newsreader George Alagiah is to take a break from his presenting duties at the BBC as he deals with “a further spread of cancer”, his agent has said. The TV journalist, 65, was first diagnosed ...

Veteran BBC newsreader George Alagiah has died aged 67, his agent has said. The Sri Lankan-born newsreader’s agent Mary Greenham told PA: “I am so terribly sorry to inform you that George Alagiah died ...

George Alagiah has said he feels “lucky” for the life he has lived even though cancer will “probably get me in the end”. The BBC newsreader, 66, was first diagnosed with stage four bowel cancer in ...

Alagiah — who hosted the BBC's News at 6 for 20 years — was diagnosed with bowel cancer in 2014. By Alex Ritman U.K. Correspondent George Alagiah, one of the BBC‘s longest serving journalists and a ...

In the second of this three-part series, George Alagiah tells the story of the GI babies labelled war casualties, the boom in mixed-race couples following mass migration and how Sixties trendsetters ...

George Alagiah will present BBC One's Six O'Clock News on his own following the departure of Natasha Kaplinsky. The BBC's head of television news, Peter Horrocks, announced the change this afternoon.

A moving video and musical tribute to late news presenter George Alagiah has been shared by his BBC colleague at a memorial service in London. Mr Alagiah died in July at the age of 67, following a ...

In an interview with the Radio Times set to hit newsagents today, one of BBC News' top anchors has blasted the corporation's rolling news operation transmitted on the digital platforms, BBC News 24.

World News Today with Zeinab Badawi/Phillipa Thomas is a current affairs news programme produced by BBC News and pre sented by Zeinab Badawi and Philippa Thomas. It was originally conceived as a ...

• He was diagnosed with stage four bowel cancer in 2014 and revealed in October 2022 that it had spread further. • A fixture on British TV news for more than three decades, he presented the BBC News ...