Episodes

  • 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
  • Why the UK can't deport fugitives wanted for murder and child rape

    Why the UK can't deport fugitives wanted for murder and child rape
    Jun 20 2025
    A motorbike mechanic is working freely in London, despite being wanted for murder. Another man was working as a delivery driver despite being convicted of child rape.

    Both men are from Brazil and authorities there have requested and been denied their extraditions.

    So why have judges here ruled that would infringe their human rights?

    How many more alleged criminals are walking our streets, avoiding justice in Brazil and beyond?

    ITV News UK Editor Paul Brand tells Lucy Watson what you need to know...
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    15 mins
  • How Israel's plan to destroy Iran's nuclear capability could backfire

    How Israel's plan to destroy Iran's nuclear capability could backfire
    Jun 18 2025
    We're on Day six of a bitter new outburst of war in the Middle East. A direct confrontation between Israel and Iran emerging from a shadow war that's been going on for decades.

    Hundreds have been killed, with exchanges of missiles and evacuations from homes in both countries.

    The world has long worried about Iran's nuclear ambitions and Israel has seized its moment to end them.

    But with Iran now feeling more insecure and under threat than ever, could it actually have the reverse effect?

    Lucy Watson and ITV News International Affairs Analyst Rageh Omaar discuss what could happen next.
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    18 mins
  • Why scientists are tracking penguin poo in Antarctica

    Why scientists are tracking penguin poo in Antarctica
    Jun 16 2025
    A group of scientists are currently on journey to the end of the world in hope of finding answers about our planet's future.

















    And our science correspondent Martin Stew is with them on board the RRS Sir David Attenborough. The only journalist on board in fact.
















    This week he's spoken to prime ministers, witnessed whales and even spotted penguins, whose existence is under severe threat. He tells Lucy Watson what you need to know.
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    19 mins
  • Why thousands of energy meters are set to stop working

    Why thousands of energy meters are set to stop working
    Jun 13 2025
    If you use an energy meter, it could be about to stop working. Hundreds of thousands of homes have a form of metering that will be obsolete from the end of June.

    How can you check if you're affected? What happens if you are? And why are so many people fuming about it?

    Consumer Editor Chris Choi tells Lucy Watson what you need to know...
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    14 mins
  • Daylight robberies: How gangs are targeting shops and workers

    Daylight robberies: How gangs are targeting shops and workers
    Jun 11 2025
    It's brazen, shocking and becoming more and more common.

    From thefts in shops and supermarkets, to hardworking people's tools being stolen in broad daylight -- thefts by criminal gangs are on the rise.

    Why is it getting worse? And what's being done to stop the perpetrators?

    Antoine Allen tells Geraint Vincent what you need to know...

    You can watch Antoine's investigation into the organised gangs targeting the high street and tradesmen and selling stolen goods on ITVX following the links below:

    Click here to watch 'Shoplifting: Stolen To Order'

    Click here to watch 'Tool Theft Crime Wave: Unmasking the boot sale thieves'
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    13 mins