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What You Need To Know

What You Need To Know

By: ITV News
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 The quick and expert briefing on the biggest news stories. Our team of specialist correspondents plus guests bring you information and analysis you can trust so you get What You Need To Know in minutes.ITV News Politics & Government
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  • Parking QR codes and other scams: how to avoid them

    Parking QR codes and other scams: how to avoid them
    Jun 27 2025
    Hundreds of fake companies. Thousands of scams. An estimated billion euros swindled. But just one entity apparently behind it all.

    ITV News has helped uncover a global scamming network - targeting victims around the world - which appears to use ordinary suburban homes across the UK to hide their operation.

    Sam Holder and Daniel Boal tell Sally Biddulph What You Need To Know.
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    11 mins
  • Why 12 year-olds are taking ketamine

    Why 12 year-olds are taking ketamine
    Jun 25 2025
    When were you first offered drugs? Uni? Sixth form?

    Well, when it comes to Ketamine - children as young as 12 are getting hooked on the horse tranquilizer.

    Why are they taking it, how are they getting it and what's it doing to them?

    George Hancorn tells Lucy Watson what you need to know.
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    13 mins
  • Why Antarctic explorers are retracing Shackleton's epic rescue mission

    Why Antarctic explorers are retracing Shackleton's epic rescue mission
    Jun 23 2025
    Stranded on the Antarctic ice, their ship sunk - how did Ernest Shackleton's crew survive for two years before being rescued?

    ITV News Science Correspondent Martin Stew is on his way to the scene of that mission impossible - more than a hundred years ago.

    And from penguins to chimpanzees - conservationist Jane Goodall tells us why what happens in Antarctica impacts all of us.

    Martin tells Lucy Watson and this is What You Need To Know.
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    18 mins
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