ITV Lunchtime News

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ITV Lunchtime News

Format	News
Presented by	Katie Derham Alastair Stewart
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Production
Producer(s)	ITN
Running time	25 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel	ITV
Chronology
Related shows	ITV Morning News, ITV Evening News, News at Ten, ITV Late News, ITV Weekend News

The ITV Lunchtime News is the weekday afternoon news programme on the British television network ITV. It is produced by ITN.

The programme's main presenters are Katie Derham and Alastair Stewart. The programme features twenty-five minutes of British national and international news, followed by five minutes of regional news from the ITV regions at 1.55pm.

The first lunchtime news bulletin was First Report, airing at 12:40pm and anchored by Robert Kee. This programme was replaced by News at One in 1981, with Leonard Parkin and Peter Sissons alternating as the programme's main presenters. Upon Sissons' departure for BBC News and the retirement of Parkin, News at One underwent some cosmetic changes (in 1987) and the regular presenting team included Jon Snow and Julia Somerville. With the move of the BBC lunchtime news bulletin to one o'clock, ITN responded by moving their bulletin to half-past twelve, and the programme was revamped and renamed the News at 12.30, again with Snow and Somerville as regular presenters. In 1989, the programme was once again given a new look, and John Suchet became the bulletin's regular host. Later on that year, the programme moved back to 1pm but the studio, graphics and host remained the same. In 1992 the programme made a move back to 12.30pm and became the Lunchtime News. The programme was now co-presented, this time with Nicholas Owen and Sonia Ruseler. In 1995, with the revamp of all ITN news bulletins, the programme's presenters included Dermot Murnaghan, Carol Barnes, and Julia Somerville. Murnaghan and Somerville were joined by former Lunchtime News presenter John Suchet in March 1999, when the programme was rebranded once more to coincide with the relaunch of ITV's news output. Nicholas Owen was the sole ITV Lunchtime News presenter from 2003 to 2004, when he was joined by Katie Derham. Following Owen's departure for the BBC, veteran ITN newscaster Alastair Stewart became Derham's co-presenter.