Adrian
Tennant on how ITV Central News coped with two extraordinary days of
breaking news in Birmingham – including terror arrests and the
destruction wreaked by a tornado

IT WAS 6.20am. As I tucked
into my customary early morning dose of three Weetabix, I was
contemplating a particularly tough day at the coalface. Today’s
prospects (I’d sneaked a look the night before) had a real summer feel
to them – there wasn’t a great deal of what you might call news.

My mobile rang. Not used to receiving calls at such an hour, I answered to find it was our early presenter, Philippa Tomson.