Honorary degree for Granada's Lucy Meacock

Granada Reports presenter Lucy Meacock has been recognised with an honorary degree from the University of Salford.

Lucy has received an Honorary Doctorate of Arts at The Lowry in recognition of her services to regional news broadcasting.

Lucy, who recently celebrated 30 years at ITV regional news programme Granada Reports, was raised in Chester and credits landing her first job at the Chester Chronicle as being pivotal to mastering the tools of her trade.

She has presented BAFTA-winning programmes on Hillsborough and an investigation into the Cockle pickers in Morecambe Bay and in 2001 won two Royal Television Society awards for the Manchester Bomb Programme and Organ Retention Scandal Debate.