Sport of kings mourns horse racing royalty
Sir Henry Cecil was a peerless horse trainer, a ten-time champion and colourful character. He will be missed.
ITV News presenter
Alastair Stewart OBE presents ITV News at 1.30pm and co-presents ITV News at 6.30pm. Alastair also presented ITV's Election 2010 programme and made television history as he moderated the First Election Debate on ITV1 between David Cameron, Gordon Brown and Nick Clegg. He was winner of the Royal Television Society Award for Presenter of the Year in 2005.
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Machynlleth: A town trying to get back to normality
The hideous realisation that a man who could visit such cold, calculating evil on a quiet market town I fear will linger.
Machynlleth holds its breath ahead of verdict
As the jury considers its verdicts, Machynlleth waits. The jury will return their verdict. No-one can return April.
Tornado changes people's lives in an instant
Monday's tornado in Oklahoma has left survivors picking through the pieces of their lives - but others haven't been so lucky.
Cheers mate! Lance Bombardier Ben Parkinson receives MBE
Lance Bombardier Ben Parkinson's MBE moment sparks magical memories of when I collected my OBE.
Thatcher and the decade of genuine revolution I saw
For better or worse Margaret Thatcher gave Alastair Stewart the most electric, stimulating and intellectually satisfying decade of his life.
Where today's similarities with the Great Depression end
The perceived hardship of those who feel the brunt of austerity is not viewed among the general public in a similar way to the 20s and 30s.
'Nasty piece of work' or a reporter just doing his job?
Did Eddie Mair overstep the line when he suggested Boris Johnson was a 'nasty piece or work,' or was he continuing a noble tradition?
The Falklands, a Pope, and a sense of déjà vu
A combination of Bill Neely in Argentina for the Falklands referendum, and Julie Etchingham in Rome, for Conclave, took me back to 1982.
How London's bid success started something special
It never crossed my mind that Singapore 2005 would be up there with Blair's repeal of Clause 4 in Blackpool or the fall of the Berlin Wall