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I was in bed at 5am when the call came

I was in bed at 5am when the call came

By CHRIS PLEASANCE

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I’ve been covering foreign affairs for the Daily Mail for almost 15 years.

The Iran war is the latest conflict I’ve reported on, but it’s far from the first.

With this video, I wanted to give readers a sense of what it’s really like inside the newsroom of a major publication on a day when huge breaking news unfolds.

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