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Memorial service for Carol Barnes Memorial service for Carol Barnes
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A memorial service in honour of former ITV newsreader Carol Barnes is due to take place in Brighton. A memorial service in honour of former ITV newsreader Carol Barnes has taken place in Brighton.
The former News At Ten presenter died aged 63 on 8 March, days after suffering a stroke.The former News At Ten presenter died aged 63 on 8 March, days after suffering a stroke.
Her funeral was attended by former colleagues and many are expected to join friends and family at the memorial service at the Grand Hotel. Former colleagues Dermot Murnaghan and Martyn Lewis joined Barnes' relatives at the memorial service at the city's Grand Hotel.
Channel 4 news presenter Jon Snow is due to read the eulogy and a filmed tribute from ITN is to be shown. A montage of pictures was on show featuring Ms Barnes both at work and with her family.
For some the world will never be the same again Order of service
Images included her speaking to the Queen and shots of Ms Barnes with son James and her daughter Clare.
The order contained the words: "Carol Barnes was born on 13 September 1944 in Norwich, one of two daughters; she left us on March 8, 2008, a celebrated journalist and TV personality, a cherished mum and sister and a friend admired and adored by many.
"She was in her prime; happy, bubbly and optimistic as she always was, and for this at least we are thankful.
"Her honest and caring way will be greatly missed by many, but for some the world will never be the same again."
'Cutting edge'
Other guests included Barnes' ex-partner Denis MacShane, her son James, her ex-husband Nigel Thompson and actors Chris Ellison and Carol Cleveland.
A candle was lit at the start of the service before Mr MacShane spoke to a packed room of the "seven ages of Carol".
He paid tribute to her as a journalist, as a radical intellectual and as a fantastic mother and friend.
He said: "It was the niceness of Carol that we all loved but there was something much more cutting edge about her.
"She went straight to the heart of the story. She could do the links, do the interviews and do them all brilliantly well."
Barnes, who was a familiar face on television for three decades, lived in Brighton and died at the city's Royal Sussex County Hospital.Barnes, who was a familiar face on television for three decades, lived in Brighton and died at the city's Royal Sussex County Hospital.
'Great professional'
She joined ITN in 1976 as a reporter and later became a news anchor, presenting all the main ITN programmes.She joined ITN in 1976 as a reporter and later became a news anchor, presenting all the main ITN programmes.
Former colleagues Dermot Murnaghan, Nicholas Owen and Alastair Stewart were among about 150 mourners at her funeral, also held in Brighton.
Her former partner Dennis McShane, an ex-government minister, paid tribute to her at the funeral, saying: "I think her great professional contribution was as a great professional from a generation that created great journalists."
Her son James, from her marriage to ITN cameraman Nigel Thompson, said: "She made me care, she made me love, she opened the world to me."
The memorial service begins at 1230 GMT.