Mark Austin, the broadcaster, has told how he feared for his daughter's life after she became "dangerously ill" with anorexia.

The ITN newsreader said his family had struggled to find the care the teenager needed, after her illness left her close to organ failure.

Mr Austin, who hosts the ITV Evening News, revealed one of his daughters developed a serious eating disorder when she was studying for her A-levels and she entered a "bleak, dark world of depression".

"She was basically shrinking away before our eyes," he told BBC Radio 4's The World at One.

"She was there, but she was gone and it all happened very quickly.

"We thought we were losing her so we tried to get help, but there wasn't really the help there."