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"My mum was a beautiful, kind and delicate person - a person loved by many and whom I am desperately proud to call my mother," he said.

Tributes from colleagues in TV poured in after the 63-year-old's death at the Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton.

Barnes began her working life as a teacher, before joining ITN as a reporter in 1976 and going on to anchor all the broadcaster's main news programmes, including the flagship News at Ten bulletin for a number of years.

After initially leaving ITN, she rejoined the news team for the war in Iraq as one of the main presenters on the now-defunct ITV News Channel.

Barnes had a long relationship with former Government Minister Denis MacShane. Their 24-year-old daughter Clare was killed in a skydiving accident in Australia in 2004.

Mr MacShane said: "Losing our daughter Clare was a terrible blow but she recovered her bounce and joy for life and last time we talked she was full of plans for the future and love for James. Her so sudden death robbed a massive network of friends of one of the best."

ITV news presenter Alastair Stewart, a close friend for many years, spoke for all her former colleagues when he said: "Barnesy was a rare creature - as capable on location as she was in the studio. Her public face was that of the polished professional. Privately she was just a lovely, generous and delightful person."

Sky News presenter Dermot Murnaghan said Barnes took him under her wing when he started at ITN in the late 1980s and he would remember her with great affection and respect.

Former ITN chief executive Stewart Purvis told Sky: "It is a very sad day for friends, colleagues and viewers. She was friends with us, she was friends with the viewers, she was friends with everybody."