ITV Granada Reports presenter Tony Morris dies aged 57

Tony grew up in Portsmouth in Hampshire, spending much of his childhood in foster care. After leaving school, he served in the RAF.

After leaving the RAF, Tony’s love for music meant that he ended up at the BBC as a local radio trainee.

From there he went on to report and present on BBC national and regional news programmes.

Tony joined Granada from the BBC’s North West Tonight in 2003 and made an immediate impact with his new colleagues and Granada’s viewers.

Michael Jermey, Director of News and Current Affairs, ITV, said: “Tony was a great presenter with an instinctive understanding of what would interest his audience. He will be missed enormously by everyone who so enjoyed working with him and by viewers who appreciated his warmth, his incisive questioning and his dry sense of humour. Tony’s death is a great loss to news broadcasting.”

Granada’s Head of News Lucy West has confirmed there will be a special programme at 6pm tonight (Monday) to remember Tony and pay tribute to him.