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From The North
by ITV News
A podcast from ITN News made in the North of England about issues that affect the North. Each episode we'll look to answer one big question that's getting people talking.
Episodes
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Dismissed: The menopause scandal - your responses
After thousands of women responded to ITV News' investigation, Dismissed: The Menopause Scandal - where we asked if enough is being done to help women going through this life-altering change - we speak to two experts about what heard. Dr Helen Wall, a GP and menopause specialist and Professor…
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Dismissed: The menopause scandal
Women say they are being failed by the NHS on menopause. It comes as ITV News reveals a "postcode lottery" in medical training, with some institutions are dedicating as little as one hour of formal teaching to the topic across a five-year degree. ITV Granada Reports Correspondent Mel Barham takes...
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Why are more young people turning to AI for advice, help and company?
AI. We’ve all heard of it, and we probably all use it in some way, shape or form - even if you don’t even know it. But what happens when the programmes become more than just the odd helpful hand? What happens when we begin to turn to it for advice, seeking solace, or simply a companion? A study…
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The Southport attack: Why did a schoolboy become a killer?
On 29 July 2024, a knifeman entered a Taylor Swift dance class in Southport, murdering three girls and attempting to kill many more. It is a story with a lot of whys - why did a 17 year old schoolboy murder three little girls and try to kill even more? Why did he target that dance workshop? And…
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The Manchester ISIS plot - and the undercover agent who foiled it
This is the story of Farouk, an undercover operative who foiled what police said could have been "one of the deadliest terrorist attacks in UK history". Walid Saadaoui, 38, and Amar Hussein, 52, had a “visceral dislike” of Jewish people and wanted to kill as many as they could in their Islamic...
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Chasing the Odds: A Journey of Hope
We follow Pete McCleave as he travels 6,000 miles to his ancestral home of Macau in an attempt to extend his life. The dad-of-two was diagnosed with rare blood cancer myeloma in 2017 and given just seven years to live. His best hope is a stem cell transplant - but his mixed heritage has made it...
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20 and Counting: How Arne Slot brought the Premier League title back to Liverpool
Liverpool head coach Arne Slot took over from the adored Jurgen Klopp in the summer of 2024 and delivered a season very few predicted, leading the Reds to their 20th league title, matching Manchester United's record, and celebrating in front of fans for the first time in more than three decades....
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The hunt for 'heavy bag man': How police caught a man who killed and chopped-up his housemate
In March 2024, 67-year-old Stuart Everett was murdered and dismembered before his body parts were scattered across Greater Manchester. It was one of the most complex murder investigations in recent years - join Emma Sweeney and the police officers who worked on the case as they tell the story of...
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Why is Ketamine use on the rise and what can be done about it?
Emma Sweeney takes a look at the dramatic rise in those taking the so-called party drug Ketamine, its worrying long-term effects, and the stark warning from scientists about exactly what people could be consuming.
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What did we learn from the Lucy Letby Inquiry?
After 59 days, 133 witnesses, and 396 statements - the Thirlwall Inquiry, looking into how Lucy Letby was able to murder babies at the Countess of Chester Hospital has heard all of its evidence - and one word was prominent - sorry. But other than apologies what else have we learnt? ITV News...
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The Southport attack: What happened?
On 29 July, a knifeman entered a Taylor Swift dance class aimed at children aged between six and 11, in Southport in Merseyside. Bebe King, six, Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, and Alice Dasilva Aguiar, nine, died in the attack. Eight other children and two adults were seriously injured. Gamal...
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Missing in Tenerife: The Search for Jay Slater
On 17 June 2024 one young holiday maker on his first trip without his family vanished on Tenerife without a trace. But just what happened? ITV Granada Reports' Andy Bonner takes a look at the disappearance of Jay Slater which has intrigued millions across the world.
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General Election 2024: The Campaign Trail Ep4
As the election campaigns get into full swing, Zoe Muldoon provides you with a roundup of this week's biggest political stories in the North West ahead of the General Election on 4 July. This episode covers 2 June - 28 June.
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General Election 2024: The Granada Election Debate
In a special programme we were joined by a panel of candidates, all of them hoping to get elected to seats here in the North West, and all of them taking your questions. Chaired by Lucy Meacock and Gamal Fahnbulleh, during the lively debate the candidates faced questions on the NHS, immigration,...
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General Election 2024: The Campaign Trail Ep3
As the election campaigns get into full swing, Zoe Muldoon provides you with a roundup of this week's biggest political stories in the North West ahead of the General Election on 4 July. This episode covers 15 June - 21 June.
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General Election 2024: The Campaign Trail Ep2
As the election campaigns get into full swing, Zoe Muldoon provides you with a roundup of this week's biggest political stories in the North West ahead of the General Election on 4 July. This episode covers 8 June - 14 June.
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General Election 2024: The Campaign Trail Ep1
As the election campaigns get into full swing, Lauren Ostridge provides you with a roundup of this week's biggest political stories in the North West ahead of the General Election on 4 July. This episode covers 31 May - 7 June.
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Brianna Ghey: How could someone so young turn into a killer?
As the two teenagers who murdered Brianna Ghey are sentenced to life in prison for at least 20 years, Rob Smith takes a look at how two seemingly ‘innocent’ teenagers became killers, concocting a kill list, luring Brianna into a park and stabbing her, in a "frenzied and ferocious" attack, 28 times.
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Does the government's response to the Hillsborough Report go far enough?
It's been more than 30 years since the dealdliest stadium related disaster the country's ever seen - Hillsborough. Six years ago the Rt Revd James Jones released his report on the establishment response, and since then the families caught up in the tragedy have waited for the goverment to…
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Theresa May: What lessons have been learnt from Hillsborough?
In this special episode of From the North Merseyside Correspondent Andy Bonner sat down with former Prime Minister Theresa May to ask what lessons, if any, have been learnt from Hillsborough and other major incidents including the Manchester Arena Attack and Lucy Letby.
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How did Lucy Letby slip under the radar for so long?
As neonatal nurse Lucy Letby becomes the most prolific serial child killer in modern Britain, Gamal Fahnbulleh joins Mel Barham and Emma Sweeney to look at how she managed to slip under the radar for so long, carrying out her attacks at the Countess of Chester Hospital, unchallenged, for a year....
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How can we help our mental health during the most difficult times in life?
Over the course of May, Granada Reports presenters Gamal Fahnbulleh and Lucy Meacock spoke to five incredible people about their mental health. Each person has been through some kind of adversity in their life but has come through the other side. Now, they are offering a message of hope to others...
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How can we better deal with bereavement?
In this bitesize episode of From the North Rob Smith takes a look at bereavement, and how we can all better deal with it after a pandemic where so many died in such a short space of time. What can we learn to help us understand about how grief works, and what can we do to lift the stigma around...
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Should suicide prevention be taught in schools?
In this episode of From The North Mel Barham is asking should suicide prevention be taught in schools? It follows the high proflie campaign by Three Dads Walking - three bereaved fathers who are trying to get the school curriculum changed to make suicide awareness lessons a compulsory part of our...
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Why are guns and gangs such a problem on Merseyside?
In this episode Anna Youssef take a look at why guns and gangs are such a big problem on Merseyside, and what’s being done to stop young people getting involved in organised crime.
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Anne Williams: the campaigner who embodied the inspirational Hillsborough mums
In this episode, ITV Granada Reports Correspondent Andy Bonner talks about the new ITV drama Anne. It tells the incredible story of Hillsborough campaigner Anne Williams who spent decades trying to overturn a verdict that her son Kevin's death was an accident.
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Women's safety - are we any further forward?
In this episode Elaine Willcox takes a look again at the issue of women's safety, and asks was the death of Sarah Everard a watershed moment and has anything has actually changed in the nine months following? Following Sarah's death in March 2021 a Home Office report revealed 'there's an epidemic...
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3 Dads Walking - what next for the dad fighting for young suicide awareness?
In this episode Mel Barham catches up with Mike Palmer - one third of 3 Dads walking - as he talks about his amazing walk raising awareness of young suicide. Mike lost his daughter Beth to suicide last year and, after teaming up with the other bereaved dads, walked 300 miles from each of their...
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The man who's saved 16 lives - but is still waiting for someone to save his
Meet the Cheshire man who's saved 16 lives, but is still waiting for someone to save his. As part of Blood cancer awareness month, Pete McCleave talks to Mel Barham about his race to get more people on the stem cell donor register.
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Teenage self harm: The North West's alarming numbers
The North West has the highest levels of child self harm in the country - with those figures tripling in the past decade, and a 600% increase in the 9-12 year old age group. So what can be done to help? Mel Barham speaks to an incredibly brave 13 year old about her experiences, and a Liverpool...
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The Manchester Arena terror attack: a safer summer?
Four years has passed since the Manchester Arena terror attack, and after a damning report revealed lives might have been saved if security had done a better job Amy Welch investigates if anything has actually improved, and whether young people feel any safer when they go out. She is joined by…
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Tokyo 2020: Our team's Olympic memories and their ones to watch
Join Granada Reports sports correspondents David Chisnall, Chris Hall and Mike Hall as they discuss their favourite Olympic memories and hear from five of the athletes they tip for a place on the podium in Tokyo.
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Mixed/Other: Dismantling racial sterotypes
Journalist and author Natalie Morris joins Ann O'Connor to talk about her experiences of what it is like to be someone of mixed heritage in Britain. Using her own stories, as well as interviews from other people of a variety of mixed heritages and ages, Natalie hopes to dismantle the stereotypes...
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Forced to hide my identity: Being transgender in the workplace
There has been a sharp rise in the number of people in the North West who are forced to hide their gender identity at work fearing prejudice or abuse. Ashleigh Talbot felt she had to quit her job to safely transition before re-entering the workforce in a new role. That was 10 years ago but the...
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The cladding crisis: Living in an apartment you know is unsafe
In this episode we are discussing what it's like to live in an apartment you've been told isn't safe and you can't move or sell. Ever since the Grenfell Tower fire four years ago exposed the dangers of flammable cladding, we've spoken to countless people in the North West whose properties are...
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From the North: Johnny Marr and Dennis Tueart talk Manchester City
Two of Manchester City's biggest and most well known fans, music legend Johnny Marr, who shot to fame in legendary Manchester band The Smiths, and Dennis Tueart, who was a cult hero at Maine Road in the 1970s before becoming a director at the club are not only great friends, but also next door...
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From the North: Women's safety - is this a watershed moment?
On this episode of From the North ITV’s Elaine Willcox takes a look at women's safety, and whether this is a watershed moment for our towns and cities in the north following the tragic death of Sarah Everard in London.
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From The North: Why is it important to mark Holocaust Memorial Day?
On this episode of From the North ITV’s Elaine Willcox is joined by Dr Rachel Century, Head of Research at the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust and Noemie Lopian, the daughter of Holocaust survivors Dr Ernst Israel Bornstein and Renee Bornstein, to discuss why it is so important we continue to mark...
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The "Yorkshire Ripper": A legacy of terror
On Friday November the 13th one of Britain’s most notorious serial killers, Peter Sutcliffe, died in hospital in Durham. He was 74. He’d been admitted from Frankland Jail where only days earlier he tested positive for Coronavirus. From 1975 to 1980 he single-handedly brought panic and terror to…
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From the North: 'Tiering' us Apart
As pubs of Lancashire and Liverpool City Region are forced to close under Tier 3 restrictions - the Government’s new system cracks down first on the North. But as the stand-off over Greater Manchester continues into the weekend - what’s the impact for the North East and Yorkshire, and the wider...
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Levelling up: Is the north being left behind?
A survey commissioned by ITV News has found that 67% of people living in northern England say they are not confident that the Government will deliver on its promise to 'level up' the underperforming areas of the economy where they live. The Government say they're putting their full force into...
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Can the Black Lives Matter protests bring about change?
In this episode of From The North, we look at the Black Lives Matter protests which are being held across the country and beyond. They follow the death of George Floyd, a black man restrained by a white police officer in the US. Campaigners stress that although the incident happened on the other...
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What impact will coronavirus have on our football clubs?
In this episode of From The North, we look at how our football clubs could be affected by the coronavirus pandemic.Most sporting events are cancelled and the football season delayed, but with some clubs already on the brink of financial collapse will...
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Being Gay and Asian - the challenges faced by LGBT+ members of the Asian community
In this episode of From The North, we discuss the issue of homophobia faced by many LGBT members of the Asian community. Nearly half of young LGBT+ people who are left homeless after coming out are from religious backgrounds - with strict...
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What can be done to tackle knife crime?
What can be done to tackle knife crime?
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Election Special: Week 5 - The Results
Hannah, Joe and Martin discuss the fallout of the General Election results.
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Election Special: Week Four - The final countdown
With one week to go, we look at what the parties policies really mean for the North. Plus - three former Brexit Party MEPs back the Conservatives and the Labour battle bus is out and about, but in the age of social media can it really have an impact? D...
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Election Special: Week Three - Polls apart
In the third of our election special episodes, we look at what this week’s YouGov poll would mean for the North, and how the parties might react. Plus - how will allegations of anti-semitism play out among Jewish voters in Bury South, and the Labour message that really is cutting through.
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Election Special: Week Two - Trust issues
On episode two of our election special, Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn went head to head for the first time in a televised debate in Salford , but with trust top of the agenda are dodgy leaflets and questionable stats causing voters here to switch off?
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Election Special: Week One - From floods to Farage
The first election edition of From the North. Each week, throughout the campaign, Political Correspondents Hannah Miller, Joe Pike and Martin Stew take the focus away from Westminster to bring you the reaction and announcements that really affect those...
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A podcast from ITN News made in the North of England about issues that affect the North. Each episode we'll look to answer one big question that's getting people talking.
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