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Fox Headline News at 7 is a nightly news & current affairs show in the Euro Republics shown on FOX. It is hosted by Elaine Holden & Daniel May. It is intended as a sister show to Three News on TV3, which airs directly opposite it. It airs nightly from 7:00 pm to 7:40 pm, along with delayed airings with a round-up edited weekly show on TV3.

Unlike the similarly named US news network, Fox Headline News is politically neutral.

History
The programme launched on 31st October, 1995 as three programmes, the main Channel 4 News, followed by entertainment and lifestyle magazine show Life at 19:30 & irreverant showbiz news programme Newsnight, screened at 00:15.

A 12pm bulletin was added in 1997. The two programmes were not straight bulletins like those on ERTV1, ERTV2 & TV3. The 7pm show often started at 6:58 to get a head-start on other programmes. offered a fast-paced, more wry view of the headlines, carefully segmented into different segments.

Life was axed in October 1998 with the final edition going out on Friday 18th December 1998. Replacing it on Monday 4th January 1999 was 4D, a heavier and newsier programme than it's predecessor, with the primary idea being that 4D would be a lengthy in-depth programme counterbalancing the energetic, pacy feel of the Channel 4 News.

4D failed to rate well and was generally poorly received by viewers who didn't feel a serious programme like it didn't work on C4. This was evident during the period in April when the show took a two week Easter break, replaced by repeats of The Simpsons, which managed to rate much better opposite ETV1 and TV3's main evening news. The programme was axed in June with it's final episode going out on Friday 3rd September 1999. The Simpsons repeats resumed in the 7.30pm slot from the following week on Mondays and Fridays, initally joined by Friends on Tuesday and Thursday evenings and The Fresh Prince of Bel Air on Wednesday.

Channel 4 News was revamped with a new format in January 2000. John Evans, for eight years the host of Tonight - the 6pm news-magazine show on EBC Radio 1 - was brought in to present the new look programme. During his tenure as the voice of Tonight, he'd gained a cult following for his dry wit and sarcasm and his often brutal questions during interviews with politicans, reaching it's climax when he challenged then Prime Minister Judy Thomson in 1996 to confirm the money that had been saved by privatisation of rail, buses and water was spent by herself for luxuries for her MP's, and that she was about to announce a new ban against any form of immigration in the country, after an investigation by Tonight uncovered government files confirming there were to be "foreigner camps" built where immigrants would be forced to shocking conditions for the rest of their lives.

The interview led to the National Party suffering a massive decline with many of it's MP's defecting to the rivalling Labour Party, who comfortably won the 1997 election.

The programme was renamed to The Latest in 2003, but the show stayed the same aside from this, as the graphics, music and studio renamed the same.

Overview
With a light-hearted tone compared with most news programming, Fox Headline News is "punchy, irreverent, satirical".

Criticism
The first show received some criticism by the media due to how a report on last-minute deals for the PS5 & Xbox Series X was featured as the second main story, with a report on Donald Trump's last weeks in power the leading headline.