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Background and Format: ITV News West Country aims to provide news, entertainment and sport for  is the ITV franchise holder in the South West of England, available on Freeview. Advertising information can be found here Programme Maker/Production Company: ITV Broadcasting Limited Target Audience: The programmes and news featured on the channel are aimed at residents in South West England. Stats: We cannot issue audience figures due to contractual restraints. Please visit BARB Tips for PRs: All pictures must be sent to stills@itn.co.uk. There is no specific contact for the picture desk. Pictures sent to the email address are picked up by a member of the news team. Please include contact details with images sent into the Picture Desk. If you would like to send us weather pictures, the email address is: bobandalex@itv.com ITV News West Country airs on ITV Anglia seven days a week. On weekdays, there are three short bulletins during Daybreak at 6:07, 7:07 and 8:07 with a 6 minute lunchtime bulletin ad 13:55, following the ITV news at 10:30. The main half-hour programme airs at 18:00 with a 8-minute late bulletin for both Anglia sub-regions at 22:30, following the ITV News at Ten. At weekends, two 10 minute editions of ITV News Anglia are broadcast. Newsreaders for the West Country have their own individual Twitter accounts. Kylie Pentelow is at www.twitter.com/kyliepentelow and Jonty Messer is at www.twitter.com/jontymesser The show can also be reached on Instagram at www.instagram.com/itvwestcountry/ Awards: 2013 - EDF Energy South West Media Awards, Television News/Current Affairs Programme of the Year: The Olympic Games (winner) 2012 - EDF Energy South West Media Awards, Television News / Current Affairs Programme of the Year: ITV West - M5 Crash, and ITV Westcountry Tonight - America’s Cup Special (winner) 2010 – The EDF Energy South West Media Awards, Television News/Current Affairs Programme of the Year, Rembering Harry (Nominee) 2010 – The EDF Energy South West Media Awards, Television News/Current Affairs Programme of the Year, Snow Chaos (Nominee) 2010 – The EDF Energy South West Media Awards, Television News/Current Affairs Programme of the Year, Terror Trial (Nominee) gorkana consumer alert: Wednesday 18th February 2009 ITV is rolling out its new regional news bulletins this month. The broadcaster has reduced 17 news regions to nine. The new regions will be: Anglia, Central, Tyne, Tees and Border, Granada, London, Meridian, South West, Wales, Yorkshire. Anglia East and Anglia West have merged to form ITV Anglia. Border has merged with Tyne Tees North and Tyne Tees South to create ITV Tyne, Tees and Border. The separate Central East and Central West have become ITV Central and Yorkshire North and Yorkshire South have merged to become ITV Yorkshire. Westcountry and West will merge to become ITV South West. ITV Meridian will be formed from the old Meridian East, Meridian South and Thames Valley regions. The London, Wales