ITN reporter dies
The ITN news reporter Joan Thirkettle has died of cancer. Ms Thirkettle, 48, covered more than 1,500 stories for ITN after joining in 1974. The newsreader Trevor McDonald said: "She was never taken in, but was always scrupulously fair - the highest tribute that one can pay to a journalist."
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