Tributes have been paid to Jon Snow, known to TV viewers for his loud ties and calm anchoring of Channel 4 News for more than three decades, as the 74-year-old journalist signed off on his last programme. Snow will continue to work with Channel 4 on long-form projects and spend more time focusing on his charitable work.

In his emotional closing remarks on Thursday night, he paid tribute to his colleagues and the regulators ‘that have given us an hour of independent news in primetime’. He also praised ‘all the people who have trusted me with their stories, all over the world, often in appalling circumstances’, and the viewers, saying: ‘It has been the greatest privilege of my life to bring you the news.’