Tony Morris, the presenter of Granada Reports, ITV’s regional news programme in the North West, has died at the age of 57.
Tony died at Bury Hospice on Saturday after being diagnosed with kidney cancer last year. He had presented Granada Reports for 17 years and only stopped appearing on air a few weeks ago.
Lucy Meacock, his co-presenter throughout his time at Granada Reports, said: “He was, without doubt, one of the most humble, kind and funny people I have ever met, and he would often make me laugh till my sides ached.”
He helped Granada Reports become the first regional news programme to win a BAFTA, presenting with Lucy the 2007 News Coverage winner about the Morecambe Bay Cockle Picking tragedy.
A second BAFTA followed in 2013 for coverage of the Independent Panel into the Hillsborough Disaster.
