ITV News and ITV West Country during the coronavirus crisis - watch our special programme

Coronavirus has affected everyone right across our region, and during these extraordinary times ITV West Country has continued our full output of programmes and digital news service.

As a public service broadcaster we are proud to be delivering these at a time when trusted and impartial news is more important than ever before.

ITV West Country has continued to provide viewers with news, information and often important reassurance, when, like many other organisations, we have had to adapt how we work.

We want to ensure we get the balance right between staying on-air and online, looking after our staff and observing the social distancing advice.

ITV News has released a special film to show how it covered the Covid-19 crisis and how viewers have reacted to the service provided.

Presented by Julie Etchingham, and produced by the award winning Tonight programme production team, it captures work done by the national and regional teams across the country.

ITV News teams right across the country have worked hard and in innovative ways to ensure they could continue to provide viewers with a strong news service covering the coronavirus pandemic.

Throughout the period of lockdown they kept our national and regional public service programmes and digital services on air - providing viewers with clear public health information and accurate and impartial news.

In the period from lockdown on 23 March to the last day of May, ITV News and Current Affairs programmes reached 44 million people, that's 72 per cent of the UK population.