Romilly Weeks

Romilly Weeks is a news reporter for ITV News, working across all ITV bulletins as well as being an occasional presenter on the ITV News Channel

Her largest assignment to date was reporting on the war in Iraq, embedded with the British army. She was the only TV journalist to travel with the first- aid convoys into Iraq and reported on the early attempts to distribute food and water into villages and towns in the South that were still on the frontline of the fighting. Romilly also secured one of the first interviews with an Iraqi civilian willing to talk about what the future could be like after Saddam. Her experiences of the war formed part of a Channel 4 documentary series.

Romilly joined ITN in July 2000 - initially working across all ITN's outlets - ITV News, Channel 5 News, radio and the Channel 4 political programme, Powerhouse.

On her first foreign job for ITV News she was sent to cover the trial in Boston of the London-born shoe bomber. While in America the space shuttle Columbia crashed, a British man lost his appeal for clemency on death row and the Martin Bashir documentary on Michael Jackson aired causing a furore on both sides of the Atlantic. Romilly ended up reporting from five states in eight days.

From Soham she reported on the disappearance of the schoolgirls Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman. She also covered the deaths of Princess Margaret and then the Queen Mother, spending three days with the public queuing to file past her coffin, and more recently, the trial of the Royal butler Paul Burrell.

Romilly began her career in journalism at LBC and then News Direct radio, where she presented the breakfast programme. Before becoming a journalist, she had an acting career, appearing in Death on Everest, Trial and Retribution and Restoration.