Alastair James Stewart OBE (born June 22, 1952) is a British television newsreader. He is currently with the British news organisation ITN, for whom he presents some ITV News bulletins, and anchors ITV London's daily early-evening news programme London Tonight with Katie Derham. He received an OBE from the Queen in June 2006 for his services in broadcasting. The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by King George V. The Order includes five classes in civil and military divisions; in decreasing order of seniority, these are Knight Grand Cross or Dame Grand Cross (GBE) Knight Commander... is the 173rd day of the year (174th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1952 (MCMLII) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... “Anchorman” redirects here. ... ITN may refer to: Independent Television News In the news, a section on the Main Page of English Wikipedia This is a disambiguation page, a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title. ... ITV News is the name of the news broadcasts on British TV network ITV. It has one of the largest television audiences for news in the UK. It is produced by Independent Television News (ITN), and was more commonly known simply as ITN until 1999. ... ITV London is the brand name and on-screen identity used by ITV plc for the ITV1 television channel in the London region. ... London Tonight is the flagship news programme in the ITV London region. ... Katie Derham presents the ITV Lunchtime News, and the news for London on ITV. Derham has a BA (Hons) in Economics from Magdalene College, Cambridge. ...

Education and early career

Alastair Stewart was educated at St. Augustine's Abbey School, a boys' Independent school in Kent, Southern England. He studied economics, politics and sociology at Bristol University and became Deputy President of the National Union of Students, 1974-76, after being beaten to the presidency by Charles Clarke, the subsequent Labour cabinet minister and Home Secretary.^{[citation needed]} An independent school is a school which is not dependent upon national or local government for financing its operation and is instead operated by tuition charges, gifts, and perhaps the investment yield of an endowment. ... The Kent coat of arms For other uses, see Kent (disambiguation). ... The north, the midlands and the south Southern England is an imprecise term used to refer to the southern counties of England. ... The University of Bristol was founded in 1876 as the University College, Bristol. ... The National Union of Students (NUS) is the main federation of students unions that exist inside the United Kingdom. ... The Rt Hon. ... The Secretary of State for the Home Department, commonly known as the Home Secretary, is the minister in charge of the United Kingdom Home Office and is responsible for internal affairs in England and Wales, and for immigration and citizenship for the whole United Kingdom (including Scotland and Northern Ireland). ...

His career in Television started in 1976 with ITV's south of England company, Southern Television, in Southampton. He was a reporter, industrial correspondent, presenter and documentary maker. He recorded one of the last interviews with Lord Mountbatten, and even spent six weeks in Ford Open Prison to make a half hour documentary. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma (June 25, 1900 – August 27, 1979) was a British admiral and statesman and an uncle of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. ... HM Prison Ford (informally known as Ford Open Prison) is a low-security prison near Arundel and Littlehampton in West Sussex. ...

At ITN, 1980-92

He joined ITN in 1980 as industrial correspondent, soon joining its roster of additional newsreaders. From 1983 to 1986 he was a presenter and reporter with ITN's Channel 4 News, before moving in September 1986 to present ITN's News at 5.40, taking over from Michael Nicholson. He moved again in May 1989, to ITN's flagship News at Ten bulletin, which he anchored live from the fall of the Berlin Wall, before spending a year in the United States as ITN's Washington Correspondent. Four days after returning from his assignment in Washington he was sent to Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, to anchor ITN's coverage of the Gulf War. He presented News at Ten, live from Saudi Arabia for two months. At the end of February, Alastair was the first British television reporter to be broadcast, live from the liberated Kuwait City. He presented News at Ten from Kuwait for a week before returning to the UK. The Channel 4 News logo after the headline stab. ... Michael Nicholson OBE is a journalist and former ITN Senior Foreign Correspondent who reported from wars in Nigeria, Ulster, Vietnam, Cambodia, Jordan, India and Pakistan, Rhodesia, Cyprus, Beirut, Angola, the Falklands and the Persian Gulf. ... Sir Trevor McDonald presenting the original final broadcast of News at Ten, from 5 March 1999. ... East German construction workers building the Berlin Wall, November 20, 1961. ... For other uses, see Iraq war (disambiguation). ... Kuwait City Kuwait City (also Al-Kuwait - الكويت), population 32,403 (2005 Census), is the capital of the emirate of Kuwait and part of the Al-Asimah governorate. ...

ITN's network coverage of the 1992 Budget saw the ninth year of Alastair's involvement in the presentation of this annual event for ITV. It was his fifth year anchoring the programme having taken the role from Sir Alastair Burnet. Look up budget in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Sir Alastair Burnet (born July 12, 1928) is a British journalist and broadcaster, known for his work in news and current affairs programming. ...

During his time with ITN he also provided the commentary for many of ITN's other special programmes on the ITV network including the State Openings of Parliament, numerous by-elections, State Visits and for the Royal Weddings of the Prince and Princess of Wales and Duke and Duchess of York. Alastair provided live coverage of the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster as the details of the tragedy unfolded. A two minute news-flash became an unscripted, one hour special programme. He also anchored, with Sandy Gall, the award winning coverage on ITN on the night of the bombing of the Pan Am jet over Lockerbie; and presented the ITV network coverage of the Memorial Service for the victims. In the United Kingdom, the State Opening of Parliament is an annual event held usually in October or November that marks the commencement of a session of Parliament. ... The iconic image of Space Shuttle Challengers smoke plume after its breakup 73 seconds after launch. ... Sandy Gall, CBE (born 1 October 1927, Penang) is a British journalist, author, and former ITN newscaster. ... The nose, containing the flight crew and first-class section, landed in a farmers field near a tiny church in Tundergarth, Scotland Pan Am Flight 103, registered N739PA and named Clipper Maid of the Seas, was blown up as it flew over Lockerbie, Scotland, on December 21, 1988, when...

However, when News at Ten moved to a single-presenter format in 1992, he lost out to Trevor McDonald in the race to become the face of the programme. This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ...

London Tonight and recent activity

Since 1992, Alastair Stewart has been most visible as the co-presenter of London Tonight, the ITV regional news programme for London. Year 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar). ... London Tonight is the flagship news programme in the ITV London region. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ...

London Tonight was produced by the London News Network, a joint venture between Carlton Television and LWT established in 1992 when Carlton was awarded the London weekday ITV franchise previously held by Thames. However, following LNN's absorption by ITN in 2004, Stewart is now once again at his old employers, returning as an anchor on the ITV News Channel for the 2003 Iraq War, ITV's Local Government Elections coverage and a special programme on the European Single Currency. Alastair won the Royal Television Society's Presenter of the Year Award for 2004 for his live coverage of the Beslan siege, and news presenter of the year at the 2005 RTS awards for his 'Live with Alastair Stewart' morning slot on the ITV News Channel. London News Network (or LNN) was a television news and facilities organisation in London. ... Carlton Television is the United Kingdom Channel 3 (ITV) licensee for London and the surrounding areas from 9:25am every Monday to 5. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Year 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The ITV News Channel was a 24 hour television news channel in the United Kingdom which broadcast from 2000 to 2005. ... For other uses of the term, see Iraq war (disambiguation) The 2003 invasion of Iraq (also called the 2nd or 3rd Persian Gulf War) began on March 20, 2003, when forces belonging primarily to the United States and the United Kingdom invaded Iraq without the explicit backing of the United... The euro (symbol: €; banking code: EUR) is the currency of twelve European Union member states: Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, the Republic of Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal, and Spain, collectively known as the Eurozone. ... The Royal Television Society is a British-based society for the discussion, analysis and preservation of television in all its forms, past, present and future. ... The Beslan school hostage crisis (also referred to as the Beslan school siege or Beslan Massacre) began when armed Muslim terrorists[1] took more than 1200 school children and adults hostage on September 1, 2004, at School Number One (SNO) in the Russian town of Beslan in North Ossetia. ...

The ITV News Channel was discontinued in 2005, but Stewart's role on London Tonight continues, and he can also be seen presenting the ITV Lunchtime News, and also the ITV News at 10.30 on ITV. According to his biography on the ITN website, he is "one of the very few people who has, at one time or another, presented all of ITN's main news programmes". He has also been a regular presence in ITV's national election coverage, co-anchoring ITV's network coverage of the 2005 and 1997 General Election with Jonathan Dimbleby and Michael Brunson (1997 only); the 1992 General Election with Jon Snow; and the 1987 General Election with Sir Alastair Burnet. Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... ITV Lunchtime News is ITV1s hour-long daily news programme, which is broadcast weekdays 12. ... 10. ... Independent Television (generally known as ITV, but also as ITV Network) is a public service network of British commercial television broadcasters, set up under the Independent Television Authority (ITA) to provide competition to the BBC. ITV is the oldest commercial television network in the UK. Since 1990 and the Broadcasting... The UK general election, 1997 was held on 1 May 1997. ... Jonathan Dimbleby, (born 31 July 1944, Aylesbury) is a British presenter of current affairs and political radio and television programmes, a political commentator and a writer. ... Michael Brunson is a well-known British political journalist. ... The United Kingdom general election of 1992 was held on 9 April 1992. ... Jon Snow is one of the main presenters of Channel 4 News. ... Margaret Thatcher David Steel Election 1987 Titles The United Kingdom general election of 1987 was held on 11 June 1987 and was the third consecutive victory for the Conservative Party under the leadership of Margaret Thatcher. ... Sir Alastair Burnet (born July 12, 1928) is a British journalist and broadcaster, known for his work in news and current affairs programming. ...

Other programmes he has presented since 1992 include Alastair Stewart's Sunday for BBC Radio 5 in 1994, before moving to host Alastair Stewart's Sunday Programme for GMTV, which he presented until July 2001. He also presented a programme called Police Camera Action!, showing video footage of examples of road crime from police cars. But in 2003, he had to give this up after his second conviction for drink driving[1]. Episodes that had already been recorded for broadcast in 2002 were finally shown in January 2006. However, in Sepetmber 2007, a new series of Police Camera Action! had returned to screens, primarily with new presenter Adrian Simpson, but with Alastair being reinstated to introduce and conclude each episode. BBC Radio Five Live is the radio service providing live BBC News, phone-ins, and sports commentaries. ... GMTV (Good Morning Television) is a national British breakfast television station owned by ITV plc (75%) and The Walt Disney Company (25%). It has held the license for the breakfast Channel 3 franchise since 1993, when it outbid the previous 6am-9. ... Police Camera Action! is a police video programme presented by Alastair Stewart and Adrian Simpson made by Optomen Television for Carlton Television which is broadcast on ITV. Each episode has a subtitle relating to the type of police video footage such as Safety Last or Driven to Distraction. It typically... For other uses, see Under the influence. ...

He has recently hosted a political programme on ITV, called 'Moral of the Story', which aired on Sunday nights, the first series has now ended, but their are rumours suggesting it may be replacing ITV's 'The Sunday Edition', in the Sunday morning slot. Alastair is married to Sally, a former TV Production Assistant, and they have three sons and one daughter, Clementine, who recently appeared on BBC Three's "Filthy Rich And Homeless" where five people from an extremely wealthy background with little real world experience outside home and/or commerce lived as the homeless for 4 3-night sessions each sleeping rough, with 'buddies' and in hostels. Clemetine caused some controversy on the show when on the 3rd day of her rough-sleeping stint she visited the studios of GMTV and obtained money from family friend Fern Britton which she used to sleep in a youth hostel whilst the other participants slept on the street. Independent Television (generally known as ITV, but also as ITV Network) is a public service network of British commercial television broadcasters, set up under the Independent Television Authority (ITA) to provide competition to the BBC. ITV is the oldest commercial television network in the UK. Since 1990 and the Broadcasting... Independent Television (generally known as ITV, but also as ITV Network) is a public service network of British commercial television broadcasters, set up under the Independent Television Authority (ITA) to provide competition to the BBC. ITV is the oldest commercial television network in the UK. Since 1990 and the Broadcasting... The Sunday Edition is a television programme broadcast on the ITV Network in the United Kingdom focusing on political interview and discussion, produced by London Weekend Television. ... BBC Three, the successor to the similar BBC Choice, is a British television channel from the BBC broadcasting only on digital cable, terrestrial and satellite. ... GMTV (Good Morning Television) is a national British breakfast television station owned by ITV plc (75%) and The Walt Disney Company (25%). It has held the license for the breakfast Channel 3 franchise since 1993, when it outbid the previous 6am-9. ... Fern Britton (born July 17, 1957 in Ealing, London) is an English television presenter. ...

The majority of people tuning in to Alastair on London Tonight have become used to his berating of South West Trains, the company he uses to travel in to work. South West Trains (SWT) is a train operating company operating in the United Kingdom, providing train services to the south-west of London, chiefly in Greater London and the counties of Surrey, Hampshire, Dorset, Devon, Somerset, Berkshire and Wiltshire (the area largely covered before 1923 by the London and South...

External links

• Interview for justpeople.com, 29 September 2000.
• Interview for Broadcast magazine, 24 March 2005.
• Do students care anymore? Article by Alastair Stewart for Cherwell student newspaper, 20 January 2006.
• Alastair Stewart at TV Ark