Now children as young as nine carry AK47s which can kill 30 people in seconds.

It wasn't glamorous in my day. In the regions, reporters were seen as such low life that they didn't merit their name in the Radio Times. Now people are interested in being famous. I never gave it a thought.

Up until about 12 years ago we never, ever, wore flak jacket or helmets but now the nastiness has got worse.

My job is to get to the heart of a story, to find out what's really going on; to get it verified and, then, to get it out to as many people as possible as fast as.

People always seem to assume that we have a full, back-up support team - make-up, costume and a driver - but usually, in a war zone, there's only me and the cameraman.

The biggest communities in which young people now reside are online communities.