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Lydia Stephens & Sam Cook

How Huw Edwards rose to become the UK’s most powerful broadcaster amid depression battle and family feud

A career spanning 40 years as a journalist, Huw Edwards is one of the most familiar faces on our TV screens. He was the one to deliver the news that Queen Elizabeth had died. He led the coverage of her funeral as well as the new King's Coronation earlier this year.

As a Welsh man with a strong Welsh accent, he achieved the "impossible" and made his mark on an English news channel. He has led the News at Ten for years, and made his way to being the highest paid news presenter across the whole of the BBC, and the fifth highest paid TV presenter with a massive £410,000 yearly salary.

But tonight his wife Vicky Flind, in a statement issued on his behalf, named him as the BBC presenter at the centre of allegations relating to sexually explicit images of a young person.

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