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1 month ago | itv.com | Sarah Corker

Other countries where forced adoption took place have already issued a formal apology but Westminster has done nothing, ITV News Social Affairs Correspondent Sarah Corker reportsOver the past 12 months, ITV News has heard heartbreaking testimony from unmarried mothers whose children were taken, and adult adoptees who are still searching for the truth. Their calls for an official government apology for the state’s role in this cruel practice which lasted for four decades continue to go unanswered.

1 month ago | itv.com | Lucy Verasamy

The UK basked in warmer weather last weekend, but the next few days look likely to be unsettled. Here, Lucy Verasamy looks at the forecast for the Easter bank holiday weekend. After weeks of high pressure keeping it settled and sunny - low pressure has taken over in the run-up to the Easter weekend. There's a yellow rain warning for Wales through Tuesday and Wednesday, before drying up for a couple of days before the weekend.

1 month ago | itv.com | Rageh Omaar

Two years ago, I was there as the most recent conflict in Sudan began, and westerners were urgently evacuated from its capital city – Khartoum. It was soon after that Sudan disappeared from the attention of the world. Yet two years on today, while Sudan's capital may no longer be burning as it once did, it is an empty shell, hollowed out, destroyed and vacant of the vibrant communities that made up what it once was. And crucially, Sudan’s agony has got worse.

1 month ago | itv.com | John Irvine

His knees buckled and he collapsed. I suppose the weight of the world on your shoulders might do that to you.  But at least Rory McIlroy’s crumple onto the hollowed ground that is Augusta’s 18th green made it easier for the monkey to get off his back and get lost. “What else are you going to talk about at next year’s Masters?,” the new champion wondered out loud as he waited to don that most hard earned of garments, the green jacket. How it suited him.

1 month ago | itv.com | Nathan Hanna

It was a night for the history books.And I was at the home golf club of Rory McIlroy to watch it all unfold.The agony and ecstasy was palpable for everyone - not only those associated with Holywood Golf Club that were in the room, but the entire country.