Leonard Parkin's final news bulletin

From 1987, extracts from the final (for the time being) ITN News at One, which was also Leonard Parkin's last bulletin. Includes a report on Margaret Thatcher's visit to the States.

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News & Politics

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• Parkin
• News
• One
• ITN
• Thatcher
• Reagan

[captaintanfastic]

Hello Dick. (At least your mother named you correctly.)

Leonard Parkin was a highly-respected television news journalist. He was a friend of mine.

Unlike you, he was also educated. He'd turn in his grave if he thought that idiots like you were making loose-jawed ill-informed comments on his untimely death.

Obviously, the word "respect" played no part in your formative years.

[NickLotay]

Sadly Leonard passed away in 1993 as a result of spinal cancer. He was one of ITN's best newscasters in my opinion.

[56postoffice]

Ahh, the memories. I always used to hear the theme tune when I was a kid. My mum used to bring me home for lunch from school ( I only lived a few yards from my primary school), the TV would be on in the background and you'd hear it.

[traciegreasybitch]

IS HE DEAD YET ?

[Voxac100b]

@captaintanfastic Leonard was an excellent newscaster and presenter. Although he retired from newsreading he did host a program called Pieces of Parkin for Yorkshire Television. I would love to see the program.

[MichaelleonardParkin]

From Michael Leonard Parkin i was a sound technician at ITN news studios in Wells St London where i regulary was on the live transmissions when Leonard Parkin was reading the news.Now i have completed 50 yrs in the film and television industry from 1960 - 2010 working at ITN from 1973 till 2005.

I was not related to Leonard Parkin, however my fathers name was also Leonard Parkin.

[cwilliams1976]

@bidanton Friday 17th July 1987; ITV ended News at One because with the move to schools programmes on Channel 4 and S4C, it made more sense for ITV to jiggle the schedule in preparation for the autumn schedule in September 1987 so the lunchtime children's programme would move to 11.10 and there would be extra ITN news bulletins on the hour as well as more regional news bulletins, in response to the BBC's daytime offerings.

[cwilliams1976]

@capsule35 First Report was launched as ITN's first daytime news programme when ITV were allowed to broadcast daytime programmes in 1972.

[cwilliams1976]

@ExScouserExRN With the regional news in between!!!!

[deselmes]

Long-serving newscasters hardly get send-offs like that these days, if at all...

RIP Leonard.

[ollie705]

Sad to hear he died relatively young. However, I do associate the One o'clock news with mind-numbing boredom irrespective of who read it, as I was a mere schoolchild who was only interested in kid's programmes, and didn't understand the big issues of the day.

[thecelestialtoymaker]

This man is a wonderful human being. I admire him so much that I even adopted his name!!!