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Peter George Sissons (17 July 1942 – 1 October 2019) was an English journalist and broadcaster. He was a newscaster for ITN , providing bulletins on ITV and Channel 4 , before becoming the presenter of the BBC's Question Time between 1989 and 1993, and a presenter of the BBC Nine O'Clock News and Ten O'Clock News between 1993 and 2003.
On 30 March 2002 at 15:15 GMT, Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother (formerly Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon), widow to King George VI and mother to Queen Elizabeth II, died at the age of 101 at Royal Lodge, Windsor. The death of the Queen Mother set in motion Operation Tay Bridge, a plan detailing procedures including the dissemination of information ...
BBC Weekend News. BBC News at Ten (formerly known as the BBC Ten O'Clock News or the Ten O'Clock News) is the BBC 's flagship evening news programme on British television channels BBC One and the BBC News Channel, broadcast nightly at 10:00 pm and produced by BBC News. It is normally broadcast for 30 minutes, except on bank holidays when it may ...
The BBC's Peter Sissons was heavily criticised for wearing a red tie to announce the Queen Mother's passing (as seen above), ... The last death of a Monarch was in 1952, and the BBC stopped all ...
After Day retired, Peter Sissons took over and continued until 1993. The BBC decided to widen the programme's appeal by moving it around the country. The programme also changed its London location from the Greenwood Theatre to the Barbican Centre. Sissons' tenure as Question Time chair included three different editors. There were several ...
Python Night was an evening of Monty Python -related programmes broadcast on BBC2 on 9 October 1999, [1] to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the first broadcast of Monty Python's Flying Circus. It featured newly written sketches, three documentaries and a screening of Monty Python's Life of Brian. Only the documentaries were screened in the US ...
Lists of deaths by year. This is a list of lists of deaths of notable people, organised by year. New deaths articles are added to their respective month (e.g., Deaths in September 2024) and then linked here.
Paul Sissons – who is a tunnelling team leader on the HS2 project – was filmed over a period of nearly four hours, first in a mob shouting at police and chanting “Tommy Robinson”, a judge ...