hello, i m mark lobel. here in the uk, it s been announced within the last hour that tv presenter phillip schofield is to step down from the programme this morning with immediate effect after more than 20 years on the itv programme, the broadcaster has announced. the 61 year old tv presenter will not return to co host the morning talk show with holly willoughby, with thursday s show being his last. in an statement, itv said that holly willoughby will remain on this morning and will co present with members of the this morning family. despite his departure from this morning, phillip schofield will continue to present peak time shows for itv. this is the statement mr schofield has posted on his instagram a short time ago. we ve also had a statement from his co host holly willoughby. she said it s been over 13 years. she said the sofa won t feel the same without him. with more on this we canjoin robin brant in the newsroom. we will ask him as soon as we get him about the cont
have typically being known as having a strong union stronghold. that will put the dup into second place, and it is the first team nationalist party will be the largest at a local government level. the big question will be what impact, if any, will these results have on the restoration of stormont? we have no executive in northern ireland because the dup is boycotting an executive in its position. but it will be in the coming weeks and months when we will get closer to finding out what this will mean in terms of restoring an executor. what terms of restoring an executor. what should we be terms of restoring an executor. what should we be looking terms of restoring an executor. what should we be looking out for in terms of power sharing at stormont? i think it will be interesting to see the mood music. we know the gains for sinn fein. sinn fein would save this show is the majority of people want to see an executive restored, but the dup boat has held