{"id":46415,"date":"2023-07-24T14:01:49","date_gmt":"2023-07-24T14:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/2023\/07\/24\/bbc-news-presenter-pays-tribute-to-much-loved-colleague-george-alagiah\/"},"modified":"2023-07-24T14:01:49","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T14:01:49","slug":"bbc-news-presenter-pays-tribute-to-much-loved-colleague-george-alagiah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/?p=46415","title":{"rendered":"BBC News presenter pays tribute to &#8216;much loved&#8217; colleague George Alagiah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Lucy Hockings announced the death of her colleague and fellow presenter George Alagiah on the BBC&#8217;s midday news bulletin on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">As well noting he won many awards in his hugely successful career, she said those who worked with him would remember him as &#8220;thoroughly decent&#8221;, &#8220;unfailingly kind-hearted and always so, so generous&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Alagiah was 67 and had been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/entertainment-arts-65949435\" class=\"ssrcss-k17ofw-InlineLink e1no5rhv0\">battling bowel cancer.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">If you, or someone you know, have been affected by cancer, information and support is available on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/articles\/1KkkxvD0G1w4l294QCrQZbh\/information-and-support-cancer\" class=\"ssrcss-k17ofw-InlineLink e1no5rhv0\">BBC&#8217;s Action Line page.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/entertainment-arts-66293125?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Lucy Hockings announced the death of her colleague and fellow presenter George Alagiah on the BBC&#8217;s midday news bulletin on Wednesday. As well noting he won many awards in &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46416,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46415"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/46416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}