Sky News with Martin Stanford
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Sky News with Martin Stanford was a news programme on Sky News
Sky News
Sky News is a 24-hour British and international satellite television news broadcaster with an emphasis on UK and international news stories.The service places emphasis on rolling news, including the latest breaking news. Sky News also hosts localised versions of the channel in Australia and in New...

 which ran between 8:00pm and 10:00pm Monday to Friday between July 2006, and February 2007. As the name suggests, the show was usually fronted by Martin Stanford
Martin Stanford
Martin Stanford is a news anchor at Sky News who currently presents SkyNews.Com. Stanford had his own interactive show on the channel, Sky News with Martin Stanford from July 2006 to February 2007...

, however other presenters who stood in for Stanford included Colin Brazier
Colin Brazier
Colin Brazier is a news presenter for Sky News, who currently presents The Live Desk. Prior to this, he fronted Sky News Today's afternoon shift between 2:00pm and 5:00pm.-Biography:...

 and Martin Popplewell
Martin Popplewell
Martin Popplewell is a British journalist and newsreader who currently works freelance for Sky News. He also regularly covers in the absence of other presenters.-Education:...

.

The show started on 10 July 2006, after a change in the channel's line-up. It replaced World News Tonight
World News Tonight (UK TV series)
Sky World News Tonight was a dedicated international news programme which was shown between 8pm and 9pm British time every weekday evening on Sky News. The show launched on 24 October 2005 as part of a wider revamp of the channel...

and then an hour of Sky News. It was an interactive show which encouraged viewers to contribute by using webcams and 3G phones to send video messages, or by email or SMS to send in comments or join in debates about the day's main news stories. The format changed in the event of breaking news and the show had different graphics and strings to other Sky News shows.

Following the cancellation of the show in February 2007, Stanford moved back to presenting Sky News Today
Sky News Today
Sky News Today is a programme on Sky News which currently runs between 10:00am and 1:00pm and is presented by Dermot Murnaghan and Colin Brazier -Overview:...

, on weekday mornings from 9am-12pm, alongside Anna Jones
Anna Jones
Anna Jones is a Business presenter for Sky News.After four years as the editor of China Economic Review, Anna joined the BBC in 1992. She spent three years as a senior producer in the BBC's business department, both producing and presenting the Business Breakfast programme from 6am - 7am. Anna then...

. The show was replaced with News, Sport, and Weather, a show giving viewers fifteen minute news updates.

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