TV newsreader battles on while covertly being sick

Television hasn't had a particularly heroic time recently, but a regional news presenter has just done his best to put that right.

In the spirit of the boy who stayed at his post on the burning deck, anchorman Kenny Toal stuck with reading his bulletin while covertly being sick in a wastepaper bin during intervening film clips.

Gripped with food-poisoning spasms just before the half-hour evening show North East Tonight, broadcast from Newcastle upon Tyne, 34-year-old Toal decided at the last minute to go ahead.