🚨 News about the news...
After 6+ years, tomorrow I step down as
@LBC
's breakfast newsreader - one of the best jobs in the business. Feel very lucky to have done it for so long, but the time has come to switch off the 3am alarm. Looking forward to new challenges at
@Global
! 📻
Blood donation number 29 underway. Big thanks to the wonderful
@GiveBloodNHS
staff who are ensuring we can donate while practising social distancing.
#Giveblood
Delighted (and slightly terrified) to say that over the Christmas period I will be temporarily switching seats and making my debut as an
@LBC
presenter. Full details to come. 📻
A real honour to be promoted to Deputy News Editor of
@GlobalsNewsroom
in London. Delighted I get to continue reading the news in the mornings on
@LBC
! 📻🎙📰
Welcoming our son, Toby Isaac Conway, into this crazy world.
Huge thanks to the wonderful team at
@WhitHealth
.
Now off the radio for a while as we get to know our little one and learn how to live with zero sleep. ❤
It's a huge honour to be promoted to News Editor, London at
@global
alongside
@HollyJonesRadio
.
We've got a fantastic team of broadcast journalists and I'm delighted we are leading them.
I'll also continue to present the breakfast news on the mighty
@LBC
. 👊🏻📻😊📰
Philip Lee just described this encounter on
@LBC
yesterday as the "straw that broke the camel's back" for him defecting from the Tories to the Lib Dems. 👇🏻
The doctor who wrote the medical section of the Operation Yellowhammer report into the effects of a no-deal Brexit called Jacob Rees-Mogg live on LBC - and things got very heated.
#RingReesMogg
|
#NoDealBrexit
Esther McVey claims on
@LBC
that foreign aid has been mis-spent, including on building an airport that was built the wrong direction facing the winds.
@IainDale
: "Where did that happen?"
EM: "oh...one of the continents...abroad".
My nearly-4-year-old:
"Daddy is it an election today?"
Me: "No, it's in a few weeks' time. D'you know what happens at an election?"
"
@CountBinface
comes!"
On this day 10 years ago, I started out in commercial radio.
Several stations, hundreds of thousands of news bulletins and constant silly o'clock wake-ups later - it's still a dream job.
I love radio and I'm very fortunate to work in this wonderful industry.
📻❤🙏
Boris Johnson and his wife Marina Wheeler have announced in a joint statement that they separated some time ago and are now in the process of divorcing.
📻 The next time you hear me on
@LBC
I'll be swapping seats and microphones to have a go at presenting...😳
🕐 1-4am, Christmas Day and Boxing Day.
☎️ Join (and call) me if you can, as we reflect on some of the biggest stories of 2018.
When I was about 15 my grandparents took me to 'An audience with Trevor McDonald and Nick Ferrari'. In the Q&A, my Pops asked what advice they'd give his grandson, an aspiring broadcast journalist. Nick looked at me and jokingly said "Don't!".
I now read the news on his show.
LBC presenter
@SimonConway
read news bulletins about the rocket strike - unaware it had injured members of his family. Cover was arranged once he found out because he 'couldn’t continue at work because of the shock of it'
Excited and a bit nervous for tomorrow - the start of a brand new weekday show on
@LBCNews
.
Join me 12-1pm for The Lunchtime LBC News...where the news never stops.
Listen:
📻 DAB across the UK
📱
@GlobalPlayer
🗣 'Play LBC News'
RIP HRH.
Part of my job is to edit our royal obituaries. Made the most recent changes just last week and I must have listened to Prince Philip's hundreds of times. But it was rather surreal hearing it on the radio today. I hope we reflected a wonderful life.
Back to the office tomorrow for the first time since Master Conway arrived. Looking forward to being on air again but...I'm really going to miss him! 💙
I'll be honest, it was awful. I had to walk about half of it; my legs just failed and I wasn't used to the heat. But was determined not to give up. It took me 2 hours longer than last time. 5h45.
I'm relieved it's over! Now, that pint.
#LondonMarathon
Managed "Emmerson Mnangagwa" and "Dara Khosrowshahi" perfectly fine in my 8am
@LBC
bulletin, but then struggled saying "UK representative". Always the way.
Without a doubt the most challenging thing I've ever done in my radio career! I'm exhausted. Thanks to everyone who called, texted, tweeted and listened to my first
@LBC
show. Particularly Robert from Chiswick on homelessness.
Back Boxing Day from 1am.
Marking 6 years at
@LBC
and
@global
with a 12pm bulletin in which I didn't stumble over Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Alexis Tsipras, and Marko Arnautovic.
#winning
😌
After 7 long months of stress, delay, disappointment and frustration...we've finally exchanged on the sale of our flat and the purchase of our new house. Can't quite put into words how relieved I am. 🏠
The European Commission says President Jean-Claude Juncker has told Boris Johnson "it is the UK's responsibility to come forward with legally-operational solutions that are compatible with the Withdrawal Agreement" and "such proposals have not yet been made."
A very happy 1st birthday to
@LBCNews
! Well done to our brilliant team of broadcasters and journalists for such a great first year on air. Long may it continue.
#WhereTheNewsNeverStops
It's one of the great privileges of my job to edit and voice
@global
's royal obituaries. I've listened to the one for HM Queen Elizabeth II thousands of times over the years and made countless updates and changes.
1/2
Dept for Transport responds to
@SadiqKhan
’s comments to
@mrjamesob
on
@LBC
about TfL having to cut services if it doesn’t receive a Govt bailout by tonight:
Just paid a little tribute to the legendary
@steveallenshow
in the news at 6, as he marks an amazing 40 years on
@LBC
. An incredible achievement, and long may he continue. Congratulations, Steve!
A point about
#Wenger
that I should've pointed out when I discussed his departure with
@mrjamesob
on
@LBC
earlier....perhaps the reason I'm so shocked - I simply don't remember
#Arsenal
before him. I was 7 when he came to Highbury. Astonishing.
She’s been my colleague for years and I’ve called/texted her thousands of times, but I’ve only just realised this morning that
@rachaelvenables
is in my phone as ‘Vebables’.
Very happy - both my parents have now had their first Covid vaccinations. Thank you
@NHSuk
,
@AstraZeneca
@nadhimzahawi
and everyone involved with this amazing national rollout. 💉🙌
End of the 2010s. Highlights of my decade:
🎓 Graduated with a 1st
📻 Began a dream radio career
🌁 Lived in Newcastle
💑 Met my wife
🏠 Bought our first home
💍 Married
🏞 Went on honeymoon
🏃♂️ Ran London Marathon twice
👨💼 Appointed News Editor
Roll on the 2020s!
#HappyNewYear
Friday night is a very special time of the week for Jewish families. This is the first of many that we won't be able to gather, catch up and eat a big meal together 😔. At least we have the power of technology.
🚨JOB ALERT🚨
We're looking to recruit an outstanding newsreader to join our breakfast team at
@global
in London. You'll need newsroom experience, bags of energy and a love of news! DMs open if you'd like to chat about this exciting opportunity.
Britain’s first national rolling news radio station -
@LBCNews
- launches with a massive 657,000 weekly listeners. Congrats to everybody involved.
#RAJAR