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04/03/2008
Newsreader Carol Barnes Seriously Ill
Former ITN newsreader Carol Barnes is seriously ill in hospital, her management has confirmed.
According to reports, the 63-year-old has suffered a stroke.
A statement released by Knight Ayton Management, which represents Ms Barnes, confirmed that she was being treated at the Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton and said that her son James and close friends had asked for their privacy to be respected.
Born in Norwich in 1944, Carol Barnes was part of the launch team of radio station LBC in 1973, before joining ITN as a reporter in 1975 and going on to anchor all the main news programmes.
She joined the new team on the now-defunct ITV News Channel when it launched in 2000, but she left in 2004.
She was most recently on television presenting 'Saving Ed Mitchell', a programme about her former colleague's descent into alcoholism.
Ms Barnes had a long relationship with former government minister Denis McShane. The couple had a daughter, Clare, who was tragically killed in a skydiving accident in Australia in 2004, at the age of 24.
After separating from McShane, she married ITN cameraman Nigel Thomson, with whom she had two children.
(KMcA/JM)
According to reports, the 63-year-old has suffered a stroke.
A statement released by Knight Ayton Management, which represents Ms Barnes, confirmed that she was being treated at the Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton and said that her son James and close friends had asked for their privacy to be respected.
Born in Norwich in 1944, Carol Barnes was part of the launch team of radio station LBC in 1973, before joining ITN as a reporter in 1975 and going on to anchor all the main news programmes.
She joined the new team on the now-defunct ITV News Channel when it launched in 2000, but she left in 2004.
She was most recently on television presenting 'Saving Ed Mitchell', a programme about her former colleague's descent into alcoholism.
Ms Barnes had a long relationship with former government minister Denis McShane. The couple had a daughter, Clare, who was tragically killed in a skydiving accident in Australia in 2004, at the age of 24.
After separating from McShane, she married ITN cameraman Nigel Thomson, with whom she had two children.
(KMcA/JM)
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