War zones are dangerous, protests can be violent, also, natural disasters are difficult to cover, so there are going to be risks..

If I'm in danger then it's usually my fault and it's up to me to get myself out of it. I am not in it just to get an adrenalin rush. No way!.

I have no time for the endless nostalgia: 'Oh gosh I used to . . . ' Life is too short; I don't have any time for sitting and saying I miss things. W….

It wasn't glamorous in my day. In the regions, reporters were seen as such low life that they didn't merit their name in the Radio Times. Now people ….

In any war, there is a concealment of certain kinds of setbacks because it's propaganda for the enemy..

Having had loving people who brought me up, and then I find another set of people. That really is a double blessing..

I was sent to a nice Church of England girls' school and at that time, after university, a woman was expected to become a teacher, a nurse or a missi….

Up until about 12 years ago we never, ever, wore flak jacket or helmets but now the nastiness has got worse..

I have never been attracted to any kind of violence..

No two wars are identical..

I never desired to go into war zones. I never had any thought about it. It sort of just happened as part of the job..

I also read modern novels - I have just had to read 60 as I am one of the judges for the Orange Fiction Prize..

I have nothing to do with the selection of stories. I'm the reporter..

On the Northern Ireland question, for instance, the British and Irish governments prohibit media contact with members of the IRA, but we have always ….

The better the information it has, the better democracy works. Silence and secrecy are never good for it..

I keep telling myself to calm down, to take less of an interest in things and not to get so excited, but I still care a lot about liberty, freedom of….

I don't want to be involved in endless media gossip..

But in the first Gulf war the United Kingdom was not under any threat from Iraq, and is still less so in the second one. Then there is no justificati….

My job is to get to the heart of a story, to find out what's really going on; to get it verified and, then, to get it out to as many people as possib….

People always seem to assume that we have a full, back-up support team - make-up, costume and a driver - but usually, in a war zone, there's only me ….

Beslan, where the Russian authorities stopped live coverage of the school being stormed, was an illustration of the progress we still have to make..