Sadly, I wasn't shocked by my Alastair's dementia diagnosis

‘The first signs at home were him not being able to reset an old-fashioned clock’

- Chris Riches

THE wife of TV newsreader Alastair Stewart has said his dementia diagnosis was not a shock to her because she had already guessed.

Sally, his wife of 45 years, has told how she had noticed the signs in their day-to-day life together.

She said: The first signs at home were him not being able to reset an old-fashioned clock we have in the kitchen.

“So I would say, The clock stopped, can you set it please?’ And then he would set it to completely different and random times.”

Alastair, 71, left his GB News viewers shattered when he dropped the bombshell about his early-onset vascular dementia diagnosis a week ago.

The presenter, once known to millions as the face of ITN, said he had been feeling "discombobulated" and sought his GP's advice after a series of mini-strokes.