August 17th 1992: a nervous young lad started his dream job at Tyne Tees TV and, somehow, with the support & camaraderie of terrific colleagues & wonderful viewers past & present, he’s been getting away with it for 30 years!
@itvtynetees
@ITVborder
Thanks folks - it’s flown by! x
Great company at St James’ Pk - 25 years since this fella captained
#NUFC
to an historic Champions League win over Barcelona. Today’s match wasn’t quite as gripping.
@7RobLee
FIRST PICTURES as BLUEBIRD completes its first speed test since returning to the water, more than 50 years after the crash on Coniston Water which killed its record-breaking pilot, Donald Campbell...
This is going to be an emotional day.
Please join us at 6pm for Pam’s final programme - including a superstar send-off! And keep an eye on our social media posts throughout the day for some great archive x
@PamRoyleTV
It's not goodbye, just see you soon...
Tonight, our beloved
@PamRoyleTV
will present her final programme with
@itvtynetees
Join us at 6pm for a trip down memory lane.
Enjoyed a wonderful, rip-roaring, heart-warming return to the theatre tonight with
@PamRoyleTV
. Well done to
@rayspencermbe
& the brilliantly talented team
@thecustomshouse
“The House is Yours for Willow and Everly”
I'm immensely proud to be part of our teams
@itvtynetees
@ITVborder
.
You've turned to us in your droves in the past few months & we're hugely privileged to share your stories. Thank you. Here's an insight to what we've been doing. Stay safe, Ian x
Well, would you believe it … people actually turned up. Thanks so much to all who did - Jeff & I had a belting time! 70 years of career memories between us … no great surprise that we overran a little!
@JeffAB61
@litandphil
A hugely entertaining event tonight at the
@litandphil
with
@IanPayneITV
and
@JeffAB61
chaired by playwright, Ed Waugh. Great friends. Great blokes. Lovely warm audience were treated to drama, music and laugh out loud memories. Such fun. 👏🏻👏🏻
Amy Lea has been appointed
@itvtynetees
' new presenter
"I just feel incredibly privileged to have the chance to share the news - good and bad, funny, happy or sad, with all those watching where we live", she says.
Read more here:
@AmyItv
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@IanPayneITV
Inspired by
#GraysonsArtClub
, and immensely proud of my wife & other
#NHSheroes
, I felt compelled to come up with a homemade card for our anniversary. I think I’ve captured her rainbow lanyard particularly well! Thanks for giving me a nudge to have a go
#C4ArtClub
@Alan_Measles
Bank Holidays are made for some criminally good reading - and mine is sorted thanks to the brilliant
@YrsaSig
, the queen of Icelandic thriller writers ... I can’t wait to chat with Yrsa &
@mariwriter
at
@icelandnoir
!
25yrs ago today, my 1st day in telly (picture from a later vintage!). Eternally grateful to the boss - Roger Tames - for the big break. And full of admiration for the way Simon O’Rourke has kept the sports flag flying
@itvtynetees
(25yrs for him, too)
An honour to present the lifetime achievement accolade to Graham Wylie at tonight’s
#prideofthenortheast
awards, and to share in such a wonderful, inspiring, humbling evening. Superbly hosted by Kym
@msm4rsh
@GWFoundation
Superb afternoon
@HexhamRaces
celebrating with our newlywed friends! Married at Gretna Green this morning, and here they are presenting the winning prize for the “Ash & Ali Tied the Knot Steeplechase” to top trainer
@lucindavrussell
Congratulations Ashley & Alison!
@AliStruthers
Please join us at 6pm for a very special
@itvtynetees
programme - if you painted rainbows 🌈 and clapped 👏 for carers you may remember the wonderful poem: The Rainbow Children, by
@GemKaleb
We’ve asked Gemma to write a new poem - and you don’t want to miss it. See you at 6 x
@JeffAB61
@BBCLN
Congratulations on a terrific innings Jeff! There’ll be a standing ovation in the pavilion for you on your final day. 21 years - wow, well played indeed pal - what a fantastic flag bearer for our region. Best wishes from all of us on the other side!
Terrific evening at Premiere of
#CarryingDavid
- What a story. A tale of the tape. A tale of two brothers. And a surprise appearance by the man himself!
@Glenn_McCrory
(He’s the cruiserweight World Champ in the pic -
@joeypayne17
is his right hand man ... I’m the lightweight!)
Be scandalous to miss this! One week today we launch
#TheScandal
March 6 - tickets available right now for
@mariwriter
talking to
@IanPayneITV
about her new book & so much more! Go!
Congratulations to our 2018 Top Trainer Lucinda Russell and 2018 Top Jockey Brian Hughes.
Many thanks to
@IanPayneITV
of
@itvtynetees
for presenting the trophies to Brian Hughes and then Peter Scudamore on behalf of
@lucindavrussell
Top marks, Blaydon/Winlaton Vaccination Centre - a root and branch service second to none. Many thanks to the superb team
#boosted
@WinlatonBlaydon
@NHSuk
I can wholeheartedly endorse this gripping read. In fact, if you see Sigurdardottir on the spine, it’s likely to give you chills - and I highly recommend you read it
@YrsaSig
@lilja1972
x
So happy that The Legacy is on the Sunday Times list of best crime novels published in the last 5 years. My sources say that there is also another Sigurdardottir on the list... (hint, hint: Lilja)
Looking for a page-turning summertime read? Allow me to wholeheartedly recommend ‘The Lost’ by the fantastic
@mariwriter
- gripping crime set in northumberland & Majorca - loved it!
Now turning to an arresting summer in East Anglia. Mari, you’ve passed the baton to Ali Smith ...
Great to see the support for
@SRTRC_England
at St James’ Pk this weekend - a superb organisation which has educated more than a million people - showing us all the way forward together.
#ShowRacismTheRedCard
Do you want the good news... or the great news?
High pressure keeps things settled for Easter... AND...
Warm air settles in so temperatures climb
(UV is moderate and pollen levels are climbing ... so.. y'know.. suncream etc)
***FREE E-BOOKS TO NHS WORKERS***
My extremely talented friend
@mariwriter
has come up with a wonderful idea and, thanks to her, this is now happening ... 👏 📚 👏
An 86 year handover, as my holiday reading baton passes from the outstanding (2020 - you’ll have to wait for it!) debut by
@TrevorWoodWrite
, to the entrancing (1934) classic by F.Scott Fitzgerald.
#TheManOnTheStreet
#TenderIsTheNight
As promised... here’s
@IanPayneITV
and Dibsy BOTH inside Dibsy’s old t-shirt!
20 stone down in less than a year 🏆
with
@MikeHindFitness
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