SKY NEWS TURNS 24 years old today.
Here’s the news channel’s first promo back in 1989, featuring all the original presenters:
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And here are just 9 of the reasons why we love Sky News…
1. Your onscreen ticker
2. Eamon Holmes
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3. The time Charlotte Hawkins got trapped in her dressing room and Eamon Holmes told everyone
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4. Kay Burley’s gaffes
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5. The changing face of Political Editor Adam Boulton
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Veteran-faced (Ben Birchall/PA Wire)
There he is in a pancake race with the Labour MP Stephen Pound in 2011. The shoes let you down Adam (Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire)
6. How brilliant Alex Crawford is
She reported live from Tripoli last August with a MacBook and a cigarette lighter socket.
7. The time Conrad Black told Adam Boulton to stop being a jackass
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8. This story about Snoop Dogg and a Welsh farmer
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9. The time Adam Boulton lost it with Alastair Campbell
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