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Halina Watts

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✍ Freelance journalist, editor & writer 📖 MA Prose Fiction @uealdc graduate ⭐ Can be reached at hmawatts@googlemail.com
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Senior pioneers at the dawn of digital

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By Halina Watts Verified
| Royal Television Verified
Now the award-winning project – which ended in 2012 – will be documented by 29-year-old documentary film-maker Louis Norris, who has won the prestigious RTS Shiers Trust £10,000 grant this year. Norris, Co-director of Moving House Films, told Television: “Tenantspin was this extraordinary participatory video-based project. It came into being at the dawn of the internet and involved training a load of pensioners to create their own weekly broadcast.
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“I don’t think I would have got through that time without [my dogs]”: Pete Wicks on rehoming animals and the return of UKTV’s For Dogs’ Sake

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By Halina Watts Verified
| Royal Television Verified
Former The Only Way Is Essex star Pete Wicks has endured ups and downs but nothing prepared him for the loss in 2022 of his grandma Doreen – his “best friend and closest confidant”. “It was a dark time,” he says, and it was his rescue French bulldogs – Peggy, who died last year, and blind and deaf 13-year-old Eric – who got him through. “At the time, I wasn’t very good at talking,” he says, “but those dogs knew everything about me. Being in their presence gave me a reason to get up.
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Sally Magnusson takes home Outstanding Achievement award at RTS Scotland Awards 2026

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By Halina Watts Verified
| Royal Television Verified
Scottish TV veteran Sally Magnusson received the prestigious Outstanding Achievement award to a standing ovation from her peers, honouring more than three decades of exceptional public service journalism. Magnusson, who is also an author, stepped down from her long-serving role as the flagship presenter of BBC Scotland’s Reporting Scotland last year.
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