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Richard's began his weather forecasting career in 1990. In 1995, he auditioned for a weather presenting job at BBC West. He got the job and is still the main weather presenter there. He can also be heard presenting the weather on various BBC local radio stations.TSW's long serving weatherman, replaced by TV-am's Trish Williamson, and then Andy Yeatman from the local Met Office. After leaving TSW, Trevor continued to forecast for the BBC's 'Look North', and now combines this with a full-time job as a Rights Of Way Officer in Yorkshire.BBC TV weather forecaster from 1956 until 1958. He died in 1979.Jack was a BBC TV forecaster from 1956 until 1965. Worked at the Met Office from 1947 until 1983. He died in 1984.Philip, born 1959, served with the Royal Navy as a forecaster from 1984 until 1994. His broadcasting career began in 1996 with The Weather Network, based in Birmingham and within months he moved to London to appear on The Weather Channel. He joined the BBC Weather Centre in April 1998 and became a BBC TV forecaster in March 1999. Also appeared on BBC TV's 'Breakfast News' and international TV channels, BBC Prime and BBC World.
Jim was born in 1950 and worked for the Met Office from 1968 until 1986. BBC TV weatherman from February 1979 until December 1984, when in his last broadcast he moved from the maps to a desk in the corner of the Presentation studio to explain to viewers that he had been promoted within the Met Office so would not be appearing on screen anymore. In 1986, Jim moved to Anglia Television and left the company before its in-house weather department was disbanded in favour of the cheaper option of contracting it out. He is now a freelance meteorology consultant and most recently appeared as a relief weatherman on BBC TV South West.
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Trevor, who worked for the Met Office from 1941 until 1962, was a veteran forecaster appearing for 30 years, briefly on BBC TV before his long association with the ITV Southern TV contractors - Southern (joined in 1962) and TVS. He retired in the late-1980s, handing over his duties to Carl Tyler. In 1981, Trevor's local popularity was acknowledged when Southern Television granted Trevor his own Saturday night spectacular, 'Trevor Baker's All Weather Show'.
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Pamela's broadcasting career started off in radio: she read the news on Downtown Radio from the early-1980s. She also presented on BBC Radio Ulster. Pamela's first appearance on Ulster Television as a continuity announcer was in 1984. As part of the continuing announcer's job, Pamela also read the news.
She left the announcing team around the start of the new franchise period in 1993 and went on to co-anchor the station's main news programme. She presented the lifestyle and leisure programme 'UTV Life' from 1999 to 2009. In May 2009, Pamela returned to UTV's continuity department, after seventeen years. She's also a relief weather presenter.
TSW's farming presenter and editor throughout the 1980s. Ron was one of the few of the station's regulars to land a staff job with Westcountry Television when it took over in 1993. Ron initially presented the station's weather forecasts, but admits that he never really took to it, and has since become a general reporter for 'Westcountry Live', as well as a presenter and host of numerous local interest programmes. As a weatherman, his forecasts used to go on for ages, as in its early days 'Westcountry Live' seemed to struggle to fills its pledged one hour of local news.Born in 1930, Keith worked at the Met Office from 1947 until 1989. He was a BBC TV forecaster from May 1972 until January 1978 and also on BBC radio from 1971 until 1978. From 1978 until 1985 he worked at Southampton Weather Centre appearing on BBC Southampton's 'South Today' and later was a relief weather presenter on 'Breakfast News' in 1990.
Darren has worked at the Met Office since 1989, including time at the Glasgow Weather Centre and in 1992 he joined the Leeds Weather Centre, appearing from 1994 on the BBC's 'Look North'. He joined the BBC Weather Centre in October 1997, presenting primarily on BBC News 24; he has been a regular BBC TV forecaster since July 1999.
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HTV West's weatherman in the 1980s and early-1990s.
Tyne Tees TV and Yorkshire TV weather presenter since early-2001.HTV West weatherman from the early and mid-1980s.
Ursula joined RTÉ in 2007, working initially as a continuity announcer on RTÉ One. She later took on weather presenting duties.
Ursula worked as a secondary teacher for nine years before leaving the classroom to pursue a career in TV. She graduated from UCG Galway with a BA in French and English, an H Dip in Education and a Masters Degree in French. She returned to college ten years later to study Communications in NUI Maynooth.
David served with the Royal Navy from 1987. He joined the Met Office in 1995 and the BBC Weather Centre in February 1995, initially appearing on the BBC's satellite channels. He was a regular BBC TV forecaster from July 1996 and moved to Plymouth in 2002 to take over from long serving 'Spotlight' weatherman Craig Rich.
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Derek trained as a forecaster at the Met Office. He stumbled into radio and TV by chance. In summer 1995, whilst working as a forecaster for the Met Office in Birmingham, he was asked to do radio weather as part of his duties.
In 1996, he accepted a job in London and was presenting weather forecasts on GMTV, mainly on Sunday mornings. In 1997, he left London and moved to work at Met Office headquarters in Bracknell. He later returned to Cardiff and did an audition for a BBC Wales weather presenting position and got the job.
Derek has been the main BBC Wales TV weather presenter since September 1997.
Other TV presenting jobs: 'Derek's Welsh Weather' (BBC, 2005).
Anglia's seemingly dour weather presenter. The station was the first of any ITV company to set up its own dedicated weather department. Brookes joined Anglia in 1972 and stayed until the early-1990s.
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Bill worked at the Met Office from 1941 until 1984. He was a BBC TV and radio forecaster from Sept 1959 until 1962. From 1967 until 1984 he worked at Met Office HQ in Bracknell as a senior forecaster and in retirement appeared as relief forecaster for TVS from 1984 until 1992.
Karina joined the RTÉ TV announcing team in the late-1990s, working mainly on RTÉ One. She also presents weather forecasts on both RTÉ TV channels.
Lukwesa was a broadcast assistant at the BBC Weather Centre at Television Centre in London. She moved to BBC 'East Midlands Today' where she presented the weather and eventually moved on to become the anchor of the lunchtime edition of the programme as well as stand-in co-presenter for the main evening programme.
C. 2005, Lukwesa moved to Sky News as a presenter.
Jean applied for a job at the Irish Met Office, having concluded that studying medicine wasn't for her. Having been employed as a Met Officer, she later studied mathematical sciences at Trinity College, Dublin. She subsequently graduated with honours.
She then took on a course in meteorology and underwent further training at the aviation office at Shannon airport.
Since 1996, Jean has been a weather presenter on RTÉ TV and radio.
Nuala joined RTÉ in 1999 as a full-time RTÉ weather presenter. She also regularly presents the National Lottery's 'Telly Bingo' and 'Lotto' draws. Nuala also acts as a relief continuity announcer on RTÉ One.
Pete joined the Met Office in 1977 as ASO, working at the Met Research Unit at RAF Cardington. He was promoted to SO in 1983 and began forecasting at Manchester Weather Centre. He spent a brief spell at Manchester Airport and RAF Wittering, before moving to Nottinghan Weather Centre in 1985, broadcasting on BBC local radio across the East Midlands.
Pete replaced John Kettley on Central TV East, following John's move to London. He performed live forecasts from their studios at Lenton Lane, Nottingham between July 1985 and August 1988. Pete shared duties at Central TV with Jim Gould and Dave Squires. He also appeared on 'BBC Midlands Today', doing recorded and live interviews during periods of severe weather.
He was promoted to HSO in 1987. In 1995 he was posted to Birmingham Weather Centre. He become a forecaster team leader in 2000.
Hobbies: football and cricket (played for BBC Radio Derby in the late-1980s).
Suazanne was born 1962 and has worked at the Met Office since 1985. She was a BBC TV forecaster from March 1989 until 1999. Also broadcast on BBC radio and appeared on BBC TV's 'Breakfast News' in 1992. Daughter of ex-Man Utd and England football legend Sir Bobby Charlton.
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Tom was born in 1911 and worked at the Met Office until 1964. He was the second BBC TV forecaster from January 1954 until 1958; he also appearerd on BBC radio. He died in 1980.Celebrated harpist who joined S4C as an in-vision announcer in the late-1980s. Launched S4C in-vision weather service. Left early-1990s.
Born in 1957, Peter joined the Met Office in 1974. BBC TV national forecaster from July 1991 until 2002. He has also broadcast on BBC radio and appeared on BBC TV's 'Breakfast News' in 1993. He moved to regional TV in 2002 and appears regularly on BBC TV's 'London News'.
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Born in the UK, Daniel's family moved to the USA in 1974. He began his broadcasting career in 1995 at WCFT-TV in Tuscaloosa, Alabama and later moved to KWTX-TV in Waco, Texas. He joined the BBC Weather Centre in December 1997 and became a BBC TV weather forecaster from December 1998 until 2000 and again from 2004 including appearances on BBC News 24 and BBC TV's 'Breakfast'.
Daniel has something of a cult following due to his individual style of presentation, including his standard 'point-and-nod' sign-off: "That's the weather...for now", and his trademark reference to the temperatures as "The Numbers".
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Cowling was the very first BBC TV forecaster appearing from January 1954 until February 1957 from the Lime Grove Studios. He worked at the Met Office from 1939 until 1981 and was based at the London Weather Centre and then promoted to RAF Bomber Command where he worked overseas in Singapore, Malta, Bahrain and Germany. Later he was a senior instructor at the Met Office College and principal forecaster at Heathrow Airport. In retirement, for many years, he played golf each week with fellow ex-TV weathermen Jack Scott and Bert Foord.Brian presented weather forecasts on RTÉ Network 2 from c. mid-1999, from which time Met Eireann staff were restricted to presenting forecasts on RTÉ One only. In January 2002, he transferred to the BBC Weather Centre. He presented forecasts on many of the BBC TV channels, although mainly on BBC World. He left the BBC in March 2003 to return to Ireland.(Later Audra Thomas). Audra joined UTV c. 1997 as a continuity announcer/news reader. She also occasionally presents the weather on the main evening news programme.
Audra was absent from UTV screens from early-2007 to November 2008.
(Formerly Helen Leonard; married in July 2005). Helen has a BA in Irish and Information Technology from UCD. During her university studies she also worked behind-the-scenes on various RTÉ shows including 'Don't Feed The Gondolas', 'The Den' and 'Podge And Rodge'.
In 1997, she became a continuity announcer on RTÉ Network 2, presenting many of her links in-vision. Her continuity links are now largely confined to RTÉ One.
In June 2003, Helen joined the station's team of weather presenters.
Cecilia joined the Met Office in 1985. She worked initially at Aldergrove but moved to Nottingham after three years. It was there that her broadcasting career began. She provided forecasts for a number of local radio stations - BBC Radio Nottingham, BBC Radio Lincoln, BBC Radio Leicester, BBC Radio Derby and BBC Radio Northampton.
After three years, she moved to the London Weather Centre, providing forecasts for various BBC and independent local radio stations. After five years, Cecilia started work at BBC Radio 5 Live, working on 'Breakfast', 'The Magazine' and 'Midday With Mair'. She spent three years there before returning to Northern Ireland in 1997.
In 1997, she began presenting weather forecasts for BBC Northern Ireland's 'Newsline' programme.
Westward TV's long serving weatherman, and for a short while meteorologist at successor TSW. Graham was a steady hand at the revolving weather map. Since leaving our screens, Graham has penned several successful newspaper columns, in the Plymouth Sunday Independent and Western Morning News.
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Bernard worked at the Met Office from 1962 until he took early retirement due to ill health in 1993. Irishman with a soft lilting voice who was a BBC TV forecaster from April 1987 until January 1993 and also broadcast on BBC radio from 1991 until 1993. He appeared on 'Breakfast Time' in 1987. For many years Bernard also coached Met Office personnel for TV roles.
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Regular weather presenter on Channel Television.
Worked at the Met Office from 1947 until 1978, including time at the Gloucester and London Weather Centres. He was a BBC TV forecaster from 1958 until 1964 and was also heard on BBC radio from 1957 until 1963. In retirement, he later served as a Met Officer in the Middle East.
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Martyn has been an ITV national weather presenter since the early-1990s. Like most of the national presenters, he also provided local forecasts in the LWT and Carlton London region. As well as continuing to present national forecasts, Martyn now also provides weather bulletins for Meridian.
Joined the Met Office in 1997 and worked in the York and Bristol Weather Centres before joining IWP (International Weather Productions), where the Met Office produces the forecasts for the ITV national and regional broadcasts. He joined the BBC Weather Centre in 2000. Appeared originally within local weather inserts in the BBC South East region and now broadcasts on all channels including BBC One and BBC News 24. Alex was one of the hosts on the BBC's 'All Night Star Party' from Jodrell Bank in August 2003 when Mars was at its closest to Earth for almost 60,000 years.
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David was a BBC TV forecaster from October 1954 until January 1956 and worked at the Met Office from 1936 until 1976. Date of death unknown.
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Liam joined the BBC Weather Centre in October 2002. He began presenter training the following January. His weather presenting TV debut was in June 2003.
Since then Liam has presented the weather for many of the BBC's regions - both television and radio - as well as on BBC News 24 and BBC World.
Served with the Royal Navy from 1979 until 1986. Started his TV career with Thames TV in 1988. In 1989 he transferred to the Met Office, where he remained until 2000. During his time with the Met Office, he presented national ITV weather forecasts from January 1992, staying for a year. Richard was the first national forecaster to move from ITV to the BBC. He joined the BBC Weather Centre in July 1993, where he remained until 2000.
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Barbara was born in 1939 and has the distinction of being the first female national BBC TV forecaster appearing from January 1974 until June 1978; she was also heard on BBC radio from 1970 until 1979. Barbara left the BBC TV team as she disliked the constant criticism of her dress sense, which the male members of the team didn't have to contend with. She worked at the Met Office from 1957 until 1980 and returned briefly as a relief weather presenter on BBC TV's 'Breakfast Time' in 1984.
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Worked at the Met Office from 1947 until 1984. He was a BBC TV forecaster from March 1959 until March 1964 and was also heard on BBC radio during the same period. Date of death unknown.
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Long serving ATV Network and Central TV in-vision continuity announcer, who is now a regular regional weather presenter on ITV 1 Central and ITV 1 Wales. Su also freelanced as an out-of-vision announcer for Central after it became part of the Carlton group in the late-1990s and into 2000/2001. Sue also did relief announcing on Southern Television in the 1970s.Jo Farrow joined the Met Office in September 1997 and moved to Berkshire to begin training as a forecaster. After working briefly at Birmingham Weather Centre, she worked as a behind-the-scenes forecaster at ITV, preparing the graphics and scripts and briefing other presenters. She joined the BBC Weather Centre in July 2001 and has been a regular BBC TV forecaster since September that year.Chris joined the BBC Weather Centre in May 2001 as a Broadcast Assistant. He completed training to present TV and radio bulletins and provided holiday and sickness cover for presenters in many of the BBC regions. Chris went on to present forecasts for BBC Four and interactive services. From spring 2006, he was also presenting forecasts on BBC One and BBC News 24.
Ian Fergusson is a weather presenter on BBC West - working across TV and local radio. He is also credited with appearances on a number of TV documentaries, including the BBC Two series 'Oceans', in his 'alter-ego' guise as a leading European shark biologist and shark conservationist.
Fergusson presents the weather on 'BBC Points West' and the region's radio stations; he first appeared in this role in April 2008. Previously, he had worked as a cameraman for the BBC in Bristol, winning a Royal Television Society award for camera work in 2006.
Educated in South Africa, Hertfordshire and Scotland, he is a Chartered Biologist and a Freeman of the City of London.
Hobbies: a Formula 1 motor-racing fanatic since childhood (never missed a race) and bass guitarist since aged 14.
(MBE). Born in 1944, Michael Fish worked at the Met Office from 1962 until 2004 and was a BBC TV forecaster from January 1974 until his final broadcast after the 'Ten O’Clock News' on the October 6 2004, which made him the longest serving national TV forecaster with 30 years service. He also provided forecasts on BBC radio since 1971 and appeared on BBC TV's 'Breakfast Time' from 1985 until 1987 and on 'Breakfast News' from 1991 until 2000.
Fish ensured lasting noterity due to an often misquoted forecast relating to the Great Storm on the night of the October 15 1987 when he said "Earlier on today, apparently, a woman rang the BBC and said she heard there was a hurricane on the way...well, if you're watching, don't worry, there isn't!". In fact, Fish's comment about the hurricane referred to Florida and a news story about destruction in the Caribbean, but because the clip was shown out of context, Fish was unfairly ridiculed although he had warned of high winds for the UK, warning viewers to "batten down the hatches", although the storm that actually occurred was far stronger than predicted (albeit, technically, not a hurricane).
Michael was awarded the MBE in 2004.
Since retiring, he made a return briefly as a relief weather forecaster for BBC South East Today, based in Tunbridge Wells, in March 2006.
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Gerald achieved a BSc Honours in experimental physics from University College Dublin in the mid-1970s. He then spent two years as a researcher in the Atmospherics Group of the UCD physics department and was awarded an MSc in 1980. He then joined the Irish Met Service working at Dublin Airport initially as an aviation forecaster before moving two years later to the central analysis and forecast office in Glasnevin, Dublin, which remains his base today.
Gerald has been a weather presenter with RTÉ TV and radio since 1985 and is renowned for winking at the close of his TV forecasts.
In 1990, he was appointed co-ordinator of the RTÉ TV weather team.
Bert worked at the Met Office from 1947 until 1990. He was a BBC TV forecaster from 1963 until December 1973. He contributed to BBC TV's Apollo space programmes and appeared in May 1973 as a castaway on BBC Radio 4's 'Desert Island Discs'. Broadcaster Terry Wogan later ran a 'Bring Back Bert Foord' campaign on his morning BBC Radio 2 breakfast show as he thought the weather had deteriorated since Bert's departure years earlier. Bert died in July 2001.Karen started off as a researcher on TV Three's 'Ireland AM' in 2004. She is also a relief weather presenter on the programme.Everton joined the Met Office in 1991 and spent a year at the Norwich Weather Centre. Having completed the forecaster foundation programme in March 2000, which included on-the-job training at RAF Marham in Norfolk, he went on to become a forecaster at the London Weather Centre where he worked for three months. He joined the BBC Weather Centre in July 2000 to present on BBC World and BFBS (British Forces Broadcasting Services) becoming the first black forecaster on the team.Mainstay of Border TV's news team since the 1980s; occasional co-presenter of 'Lookaround', and also a Border weather presenter. 
Born in 1958, Peter has worked at the Met Office since 1983. In 1989 he joined the Norwich Weather Centre and appeared from 1993 on BBC 'Look East'. Joined the BBC Weather Centre in October 1997 to appear on BBC World. Began appearing on other BBC TV channels from November 1998, including BBC TV's 'Breakfast News'.
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(Later Sally Faber, now Sally Johnson). Sally started at TSW as a continuity announcer/news reader. She was there under contract for one year. She then left to present the 'Ford Ski Report' for Sky Channel in 1987/1988, then 'Ski Sunday' for the BBC with David Vine in 1988/1989 (by now, Sally Faber, having married former West Wiltshire MP David Faber, the grandson of Harold MacMillan, in October 1988).
After a few years full time presenting corporate videos for companies such as Ford, Tesco, British Airways, Duty Free, BHS, National Electric and Nuclear Power, and researching, writing and presenting for BMW, Sally had her first child in 1992. She then moved to LNN at Carlton TV in London as a weather presenter. After eighteen months there, she presented a live phone-in show twice weekly on the Travel Channel and interviewed over forty celebrities.
In 1995 and again in 1996, she worked for Anglia Television on two series of 'Countrywide', where she had to take up twenty-four sports over two years, including race riding, land yachting and microlighting. Following this, she presented a series of programmes for Channel 4 on 'Polo'.
After having a second child (mid-1997), she went into semi-retirement. Sally presented a sports programme for Sky Sports for a couple of years, covering the British Polo season. More recently, she has been involved in interviewing for HCTV, a new digital channel. She lives between the USA and Gloucestershire, with her three children.
(OBE). One of the BBC's best known weathermen, known for his cheery wink at the end of each forecast. Bill worked for the Met Office from 1957 until 1999. He appeared as a TV forecaster from June 1975 until January 2000 and was senior forecaster from May 1983 until his retirement.
Bill was awarded the OBE in 1995.
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Central News weatherman for a short while in 1982. After his departure, Central dropped in-vision weather forecasts for a long period right up until the end of the decade when they made a comeback with Charlie Neil in a separate bulletin outside the news.On being selected to join the Met Office, Tori went through an intensive training programme - first completing the IFC meteorology foundation course at the Met Office Training Centre, and then broadcast meteorology training at the BBC Weather Centre from April 2001. Began broadcasting in November 2001 and now broadcasts across a range of BBC channels, both TV and radio, as well as providing information and articles for the BBC website. 
Announcer at Granada's northern transmission centre, from May 2000 to 28 October 2002. She joined as a trainee announcer, after graduating in Film, Media and Communication from Sheffield Hallam University. She was a regular promotional voice for the Wellbeing Channel and was also heard occasionally on regional promotions made in Leeds. Kerrie moved from announcing to weather presenting after regional continuity ended on ITV 1.
Victoria joined Yorkshire Television in 1994 as a broadcast trainee, gaining experience in graphics, scheduling, commercial assembly and control room presentation. After eight months, she was awarded a long term contract and worked in the Planning and Presentation department where she spent time as a presentation director for both Yorkshire and Tyne Tees Television.
One of Victoria's roles at Yorkshire TV involved recording the weather bulletins and this led her to record her own show reel which she sent off to the newly formed Weather Channel and was offered a job as a presenter in September 1996.
She joined the BBC Weather Centre in June 1998 to work on BBC News 24, leaving in 2004.
Victoria is currently a news presenter for BBC South West.
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Bespectacled Irishman. Frank was born in 1935. He worked at the Met Office from 1952 until 1995 and appeared as a BBC TV forecaster from September 1980 until March 1981. He was also heard regularly from the London Weather Centre on BBC radio from 1979 until 1991.
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ITV national and Carlton London/LWT weather presenter in the early-1990s. Laura is married to presenter Nick Clark. Her sister is former 'Blue Peter' and 'Going Live!' host Sarah Greene.
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One of STV's weather presenters.
John was born in 1966 and joined the Met Office in 1990. After a brief spell at Met Office HQ at Bracknell, he began forecasting in February 1991, working at regional weather centres in Nottingham, Bristol and Plymouth including some local radio. ITV national weather forecaster from March 1997 until he joined the BBC Weather Centre in spring 2003. John has presented forecasts on all BBC TV channels.
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Weather and travel presenter for Central Television, and later a regular weather presenter on HTV West and HTV Wales.
Weather presenter on both HTV West and HTV Wales until January 2002, who now co-presents the breakfast show on South Wales' Red Dragon Radio. 
Alex was a weather presenter with STV in the 1980s and later ITV Network from 1989 until the early-1990s.
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Ingrid Holford was a far cry from the traditional blonde and bubbly 'weather girl' but she certainly knew how to present a bulletin, and one almost felt that she might give out lines or a detention if you weren't paying attention. She fronted the weather for Southern from 1979 until 1981.David was a news journalist at Anglia TV from 1990. He is now Anglia's head of weather and is a regular weather presenter on Anglia. David is also deputy editor of Anglia's Regional Programme Unit.Alan is an actor and TV presenter. He presented 'Talkabout' on RTÉ which ran for three series.
Since September 1999, he has been a presenter on TV Three's news and entertainment breakfast magazine 'Ireland AM'. Alan also presents the weather on TV Three.
Film and TV roles include: 'The Irish RM', 'Lovejoy', 'Michael Collins', 'Nighthawks', 'Eat The Peach'.
Gemma is an ITV regional weather presenter.
Splendidly moustached Anglia TV weatherman from 1962 until 1985.
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Wendy's broadcast career started at Norwich based Broadland 102 FM. In 2003, she joined Anglia TV as a production journalist. She is currently a weather presenter at Anglia.Becky graduated from the University of Luton in 1997 with a BA Hons in media performance.
She started off in broadcasting at Vibe FM, eventually becoming the co-presenter on the breakfast show. Since then she has had a varied career: weather girl for Anglia TV; reporter and presenter on BBC's 'Newsround' (November 2001 - February 2003); co-presenter on the breakfast show at Capital Radio (March 2003 - December 2004); presenter and reporter for GMTV's 'Entertainment Today'; co-presenter 'The Wright Stuff' on Five; presenter, Sky Sports News.
In May 2005, Becky returned to 'Anglia News' as a presenter and reporter.
Alina joined the BBC through BBC Talent. Previously, she was a performer on a cruise ship and acted in TV commercials and some TV shows, including 'Preston Front', 'Crime Traveller' and 'Red Dwarf'; she also did some voluntary work for Southampton's hospital radio.
Following training at the Met Office, she became a regular weather presenter on BBC 'South Today'.
Emma is a weather presenter for ITV Central.Long serving weatherman at Tyne Tees TV.Simon's working life began with five years in a bank. In 1992, he became a full time forcaster at the Weather Department in Birmingham. Whilst there, he joined The Weather Network.
His next TV role was with GMTV as their weatherman (1997 - 1999). He gave up TV briefly to concentrate on developing his private weather companies which specialise in providing forecasts to Midlands based companies.
However, in 2001 he returned to TV and became a regular weather presenter on BBC 'Midlands Today'.
Tom, born 1924, worked at the Met Office from 1950 until 1980. He was a BBC TV forecaster in 1961 and was heard on BBC radio from 1962 until 1965. He died in March 1980.
Born in 1952, John worked at the Met Office from 1970 until 2000, including a spell at the Nottingham Weather Centre (1980 - 1985) where he made appearances on BBC Birmingham's 'Midlands Today' and Central TV. He was a BBC TV forecaster from October 1985 until 2000 and also appeared on BBC TV's 'Breakfast Time' (1986 - 1987), 'Breakfast News' (1990 - 1991 and 1993 - 2000). He also spent three years as the resident weather expert on BBC Two's 'The Travel Show'.
John took over from Bert Foord as the weather team's horse racing tipster and pop group A Tribe Of Toffs recorded 'John Kettley Is A Weatherman' which peaked at number 21 in the December 1988 pop charts. Since leaving BBC TV, he has gone freelance and has broadcast on BBC Radio 5 Live and continues to support Burnley FC.
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Martin has been the main weather presenter with TV Three since the station launched in September 1998.
Carol joined the BBC secretarial reserve in 1984 and later moved to the BBC Religious Broadcasting department with broadcasts on BBC Scotland and national radio. Later, she presented HTV's bi-monthly series 'Talking Issues'. She joined The Weather Channel in 1996 and the BBC Weather Centre in April 1998, appearing primarily on BBC News 24. Currently alternates every three weeks with Louise Lear and Helen Willetts presenting the weather bulletins on BBC’s 'Breakfast', welcoming viewers with her cheery elongated Scottish “good morning”.
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Isobel Lang has worked at the Met Office since 1991. She appeared briefly as a holiday relief forecaster for Meridian TV before joining the BBC Weather Centre in May 1995. She has been a regular BBC TV forecaster since December of that year.
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Born in 1936, Geof worked for the Met Office from 1959 until 1974 and again from 1990 until TBC. He appeared as a BBC TV forecaster from 1965 until 1967 and was also heard on BBC radio during this period.
Originally a researcher for CBBC, in 1992 Louise worked as a weather presenter for Central TV in Nottingham. She then moved to LBC and joined The Weather Channel at its launch in 1996. Moved to the BBC Weather Centre in April 1998, working primarily on BBC News 24. Currently alternates every 3 weeks with Carol Kirkwood and Helen Willetts presenting the weather bulletins on BBC’s 'Breakfast'.
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David was born in 1951 and worked at the Met Office from 1973 including Manchester (1975 - 1978), London and Cardiff Weather Centres (where he made appearances on HTV). He joined the BBC Weather Centre in January 1994 and was a BBC TV forecaster from May 1995 until 2000; he was also heard on BBC radio during this period.
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Lara started out with behind-the-scenes roles on various TV programmes including the 'Pepsi Chart Show' (Five) and 'London Tonight' (ITV),
Lara has worked across a variety of television networks: she has been involved with BBC's 'Liquid News', presented chatshow.net and produced and presented the BBCi showbiz news. She currently presents showbiz news on E! as well as being the regular weather presenter on 'Five News'.
Yorkshire Television's long serving weather forecaster with fellow meteorologist Jon Mitchell. Debbie started her broadcasting career in radio at The Pulse in Bradford. She now also presents a show for Real Radio in Yorkshire.
Joined S4C as an announcer in the mid-1980s. Famously moved on to ITV national weather. She also presents the regional forecasts for ITV London.
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A former naval man, Ron fronted the weather for Southern (1980 - 1981) and went on to become one of the most popular presenters on TVS in the South East. A placid, yet charismatic TV natural, Ron would often mention in forecasts his daytime visits to schools across Kent, East Sussex and Essex where he would talk to the young ones about, well what else, the weather.
According to the TVS book 'Coast To Coast', Ron was the first television weatherman in the UK to use the term 'celsius'. It was also Ron who coined the phrase 'chill factor' apparently.
During the summer he would often present forecasts well away from the studios, either at the beach or famous landmarks like Leeds Castle. During the early years of TVS he would present forecasts from his trusty 'toblerone' - a triangular shaped revolving board. In 1987 Ron was given the chromakey, high-tech treatment.
On 'Meridian Tonight' he would often present forecasts from the comfy seated area used more often for interviews. Like Brucie or Barrymore he had his own set phrases - 'bronzy, bronzy' for the summer months, while in the depths of winter viewers would be warned to 'throw another blanket on the bed'. For the summer equinox he would melancholically comment 'downhill all the way to Christmas'. Ron is now retired from TV.
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BBC TV weather forecaster from April 1967 until December 1969. He later became one of the presenters of BBC Radio 4's 'You And Yours' in the 1970s.Becky is weather presenter on ITV 1.
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Formerly presented the late show at Swansea Sound. Joined BBC Wales TV presentation in 1997. From late-1999 combined this with presentation for BBC Radio Wales. Fronted 'After Midnight' - a pop video based show on BBC Choice Wales. Currently also seen presenting weather forecasts on the digital channel BBC 2W.
Don was born in 1927 and worked at the Met Office from 1949 until 1985. He was a BBC TV forecaster from 1963 until 1964 and also on BBC radio from 1963 until 1968. He later worked in Lusaka, Zambia, from January until May 1966, acting as forecaster for the RAF detachment when Rhodesia declared independence.Worked at the Met Office from 1941 until 1964 and from 1971 until 1983. He was the third BBC TV weather forecaster, serving from February 1954 until August 1959 and also on BBC radio in 1957. Date of death unknown.Kirsty joined the BBC Weather team in September 2003. She initially started her training on new media forecasts with regular broadcasts on BBC interactive and online services. She completed the first part of her forecaster training at the Met Office College in 2004 and returned to the BBC Weather Centre. In 2005 she passed her advanced forecaster exams, and is now broadcasting across a range of television and radio channels.
Glasgow born, fast talking and bespectacled, Ian McCaskill became the most imitated BBC TV weather forecaster with his very own Spitting Image puppet. He was a BBC TV forecaster from October 1978 until July 1979 and again from September 1983 until June 1998. From 1979 until 1983 he worked at Birmingham Airport. He appeared on BBC TV's 'Breakfast Time' in 1985/1986 and 'Breakfast News' in the early-1990s. He came out of retirement in August 1999 to appear on GMTV and also presented for BBC TV's 'Look North' in Leeds.
He has made guest appearances on 'Masterchef' and 'Have I Got News For You'. He appeared on the first series of Celebrity Fit Club (ITV 2002) and has voiced TV adverts. In September 2006, he featured as a contestant on Celebrity Masterchef (BBC).
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Rob, born 1961, has worked at the Met Office since 1982. BBC TV forecaster since July 1991 (currently longest serving as at 2006); he has also been heard regularly on BBC radio. Rob is married to BBC TV announcer Rosanne McMillan.
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Andrea was a weather presenter with GMTV.
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Frank began his working life as an English teacher. However, before long, he was making his first moves into the world of broadcasting. He worked initially at a radio station in Dundalk, before moving to BBC Radio Ulster, where he worked as a producer. He later took up a presenting role at Downtown Radio.
Television was next; in 1987, Frank moved to Ulster Television as a continuity announcer. He moved away from announcing to the new look 'UTV Live' in 1993, performing a reporting and presenting role.
Frank is currently one of the presenters on the early-evening lifestyle programme 'UTV Life'. During his time at UTV, he has also commentated on many Gaelic games and presented 'School Around The Corner', He has been the station's main weather presenter since the mid-1990s.
Long serving Yorkshire Television weatherman, with colleague Debbie Lindley. In fact the pair have been known to co-present weather bulletins, which is unusual in the world of television weather forecasts.Hazel has attended courses at the Meteorological College at Bracknell, and also has a first class degree in Mathematics.
She was the voice of Capital Radio's 'Flying Eye' traffic updates from 1987 until 1993. She did the afternoon/evening slot for several years with David Jensen, Graham Dene, Mike Read, and when she sat in for Russ Kane, with Chris Tarrant.
She then moved to Sky News, where she presents the weather.
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Anglia Television weather presenter from 1997, who went on to front weather forecasts nationally for GMTV.
Central TV's long serving weather presenter from the late-1980s until the present day.
Southern Television weather presenter from 1963 until 1981.
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S4C's most recognised presentation personality. Now presents the weather on the channel. Has previously worked as an announcer with S4C from the early-1990s. Jenny was also a long serving announcer for HTV Wales. One of her first TV jobs was as one of the glamorous hostesses on 'Sion A Sian', the Welsh language version of 'Mr And Mrs' in the 1960s. As well as announcing for HTV, Jenny occasionally appeared as an announcer on Thames TV in London.Shefali has been the main weather presenter with BBC 'Midlands Today' since 1993. In 2003, Shefali was appointed as a stand-in for the regular main presenters of the programme.
Graham was born in 1932 and worked at the Met Office from 1951 until 1992. He was a BBC TV forecaster from 1963 until January 1974 and also on BBC radio from 1962 until 1974. He recalls getting a strange look from a fellow passenger when he boarded a bus as he had forgotten to remove the TV makeup and hairspray! He was appointed manager of Norwich Weather Centre in 1984 and later appeared for a number of years on BBC Norwich's 'Look East'.
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John Parry was a BBC TV and radio weather forecaster from July 1954 until 1955. He worked at the Met Office until 1979. John died in 1983.
BBC Northern Ireland's resident weather forecaster since 1996. Angie was part of the ITV national weather presenter line-up from February 1993 until April 1994.Gail began her career with the Met Office in 1999, training in Reading and with the BBC in London. She later joined BBC Scotland, where she became a regular weather presenter.Ken Pollard, born 1930, was a BBC TV forecaster from 1959 until 1960. He was working at Bracknell HQ at the time of the 25th anniversary get together but was mistakenly missed off the guest list, although they made up for that by inviting him to the 40th anniversary party at BBC TV Centre.
Susan Powell joined the Met Office as a trainee broadcast meteorologist and went through an intensive training programme - first completing the IFC meteorology foundation course at the Met Office Training Centre, and then broadcast meteorology training at the BBC Weather Centre. Susan joined BBC Weather Centre in April 2001 and now broadcasts across a range of BBC channels including BBC One and BBC News 24.
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Mike originally studied to be a Catholic priest and produced a video about world religions. When he realised that the priesthood wasn't for him, he turned his attentions to airlines and became cabin crew with British Airways.
In 1998, he joined BBC South as a weather presenter. He later presented the breakfast bulletins at BBC South as well as presenting the drivetime slot on BBC Radio Solent.
In 2004, Mike joined BBC West as a reporter and presenter on 'Points West'.
Other broadcasting roles: presenter, BBC Radio 5 Live.
Anne was born in 1952 and worked for the Met Office from 1974 until 1987. She was a BBC TV forecaster from 1981 until 1983 (second woman) and later appeared briefly on TVS as a relief forecaster from 1987 until 1988.
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STV's long serving weatherman who moved into politics. Lloyd is now the Scottish National Party MSP for Dumbarton.
Carlton Westcountry's main weather presenter who took over the job from Ron Bendell who never really enjoyed the role.Heather joined the Met Office in 1993 and has been a weather forecaster with BBC Scotland since 1994. ITV national weather presenter who also presents forecasts for ITV London. Julie studied broadcast journalism at Nottingham Trent University. Her first broadcast job was as broadcast assistant at BBC Radio Nottingham in 1992.
In 1997 she moved to television and the BBC 'East Midlands Today' office, working as a picture editor and planner. Whilst there, she also stood in as the 'East Midlands Today' weather presenter.
In February 1999, Julie joined BBC 'Look East' in Norwich where she presents lunchtime and evening weather forecasts. She also presents weather bulletins for a number of BBC local radio stations in the area.
Joanna was a weather girl on HTV West until late-2001. One of Joanna's claims to fame was her frequent donning of various leather garments for her weather forecasts, leading one national newspaper to headline a profile piece on her as 'The Weather In Leather'.
Her first TV appearance was as a contestant on 'Blind Date', and she enjoyed the experience so much that she decided to pursue a career in broadcasting, initially as a researcher for London Weekend Television. She later worked at Sky, presenting the weather on Sky News.
Joanna left Sky to have a baby. She is currently doing voice-overs for various clients, including Bloomberg. The bulk of her work is still weather-related but she does have other clients and has voiced various advertisements and documentaries too.
Long serving weatherman on BBC South West's 'Spotlight', from 1978 until 2002. In retirement Craig still presented the weather occasionally, standing in for David Braine.
Born 1974, Nina joined the Met Office in December 2000 looking for new challenges. She had to go through an intensive training programme - first completing the IFC meteorology foundation course at the Met Office Training Centre, and then broadcast meteorology training at the BBC Weather Centre (that she joined in April 2001). She has been a BBC TV forecaster since November 2001 and has appeared across a range of BBC channels.
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Weather presenter with ITV Central in the 1990s.Elizabeth joined the Met Office in December 2000 and completed four months of forecaster training at the Met Office college before arriving at the BBC in April 2001 to train as a Broadcast Meteorologist. She now broadcasts across a range of BBC channels.The face of LWT's local weather forecasts in the late-1980s and through most of the 1990s. Rianna has gone on to become an accomplished TV presenter, including the BBC series 'Black Britain'. Rianna has also presented the BBC's 'Watchdog'.
Jack was born in 1923 and worked for the Met Office from 1941 until 1983. Former mainstay of the BBC TV national weather team from 1969 until 1983. Jack Scott later moved to Thames Television from 1983 until 1988 where he took over from Francis Wilson, who had left Thames for the BBC's 'Breakfast Time'. After retiring from Thames, Jack co-presented 'Years Ahead' on Channel 4 from 1988 until 1989.
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Síle's broadcasting career began in September 1998 when she joined Galway-based Irish language channel TG 4 as a presenter/researcher on movie show 'Hollywood Anocht'. She remained with the programme until the following Spring. In Autumn 1999, Síle became a regular in-vision announcer and weather presenter at the station.
In August 2001 she took up a position as presenter on 'Cula 4' - TG 4's children's strand - fronting the live links between the programmes. She remained in that role until May 2003.
In 2004, Síle moved into radio, first with Beat 102-103 (February 2004 - December 2004) and then moving to Today FM.
Síle has been involved with various RTÉ television projects, including: 'Up For The Match' (reporter/presenter, RTÉ One, September 2004 and 2005); 'Seachtain' - a weekly bi-lingual programme (reporter, RTÉ One, October 2004 - October 2005); 'You're A Star' (presenter, series four, RTÉ One, Autumn 2005); 'Coisceim' (presenter, RTÉ One, January 2005); 'St Patrick's Day Parade' (co-presenter, RTÉ One, March 2005 and 2006).
She has made guest appearances on various television shows: 'The Panel' (2004, RTÉ Two); 'The Podge And Rodge Show' (2006, RTÉ Two); 'Tubridy Tonight' (2004 and 2005, RTÉ One).
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John was born in 1952 and joined the Met Office in 1970. He was a BBC TV forecaster for a short period from April - August 1981. He was on duty when Sunday Grandstand launched on BBC Two. As most events were rained off, he spent lots of time discussing this with presenter Desmond Lynam. In 1991 he was appointed Head of Newcastle Weather Centre and appeared on BBC TV Newcastle's 'Look North'.
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Channel Television weather presenter in the early-1990s.
HTV West and Thames TV continuity announcer who moved to the HTV weather department when in-vision announcing was axed in 1993. Lorna Stevens was regularly seen as a weather presenter on both HTV West and HTV Wales, but recently left when weather presentation was centralised in Birmingham. Lorna is also believed to have announced for HTV Wales.
A former professional model who worked with The Bluebell Girls first in Barcelona, Spain, and then in Paris, she started her broadcasting career on her return the UK with local ILR station Radio 210 in the Thames Valley. She went on to work as an announcer for BBC Radio 4 and was an announcer on BBC TV from 1984 to 1986, before embarking on a career as a freelance announcer/presenter for several ITV companies and also on BFBS (British Forces Broadcasting). Lorna also worked as an announcer on Westcountry Television in Plymouth for around 18 months from 1993 with colleague Peter Griffin.
Vivien was a Central TV announcer and news reader in the early-1980s. She was also a daytime continuity announcer for Thames TV and Anglia TV at about the same time.
In 1983, she had a spell as a BBC TV announcer. She was a presenter, BBC Radio 2 in 1980; BBC Radio 2 announcer from 1980 until 1982. She also appeared as relief weather presenter on BBC TV's 'Breakfast Time' in 1988 and as a voice on BBC TV's 'Points Of View' in 1988 - TBC.
A teacher at Campbell College, Belfast, Robin Taylor joined UTV as a continuity announcer around the time of the station's relaunch in June 1993. Robin continues to mix his teaching career with weekend and holiday continuity/news reading cover at UTV.
Robin also occcasionally presents weather forecasts in-vision.
Born 1976, Matt joined the Met Office in 1998 to train as a weather observer, mostly at RAF Cranwell, in Lincolnshire. During his time there, he spent a couple of years improving his Maths and Physics through the Open University which helped to gain him a place on the 12 month forecasting programme at the Met Office College. From there, he returned to Lincolnshire for a while to work at RAF Coningsby, before being posted to Cardiff Weather Centre. He spent a year-and-a-half on the forecasting bench at Cardiff, where amongst other jobs were live broadcasts on BBC Radio Wales and BBC Radio Southwest.
Matt moved to the BBC Weather Centre in January 2004. He has been presenting forecasts on BBC TV since spring 2006. In April 2006, he became a regular forecaster on BBC 'Breakfast'.
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Declan was a relief weather forecaster with BBC Northern Ireland in the late-1990s and early-2000s.One of Anglia Television's current weather presenters.
Aoife is a TG 4 continuity announcer, who can often be seen on the channel presenting in-vision links. She also presents weather forecasts at the station. Aoife is also the host of 'Paisean Faisean', a TG 4 dating programme.
Penny was born in 1961 and joined the Met Office in 1983 including spells at Norwich, Glasgow and Southampton Weather Centres. She joined the BBC Weather Centre in June 1992, and fronted forecasts from November that year on BBC TV and radio. Also appeared on BBC TV's 'Breakfast News' in 1993 and 1998.
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Replaced Trevor Baker as the TVS weatherman in the late-1980s and went on to forecast for Meridian Broadcasting's 'Meridian Tonight'.
Trevor retired from his weather presenting role at Meridian in summer 2002. He was replaced by Gemma Humphries.
Peter Walker notched up 25 years of weather appearances, starting as a BBC TV forecaster from 1964 until June 1968. From 1968 until 1982 he was a lecturer in communications at Heriot Watt University and later transferred to presenting for ITV, appearing on STV from 1970 until 1981 and Anglia TV from 1983 until the early-1990s.
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Southern Television meteorologist, 1963 - 1981, and then TVS weatherman in the 1980s, who often stood in for Trevor Baker or, later Carl Tyler.
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Since January 2004, Jonathan has worked as a news presenter for the BBC World Service. He has regularly presented the 'BBC World News', 'The African News' and programmes such as 'From Our Own Correspondent'.
Jonathan started in television in the early-1990s, working for the PBS station in Seattle (KCTS Television), presenting programmes and documentaries; he was also the main promotional voice of the station. After training as a news writer at Worldwide Television News, Jonathan presented various WTN documentaries, including the environmental series 'Earthfile' and a five hour programme about Nigeria.
For c. six years, Jonathan worked for ITV. Most of his time there was spent at HTV West as a news presenter and announcer (1994 - 1998). He presented the channel's lunchtime news, morning bulletins and the popular late news programme at 10.30pm.
Jonathan presented the weather for Meridian (1992 - 1993); he was also an announcer there and at HTV Wales (1993). He also presented on the Sky News overnight service for a period.
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Helen Willetts has worked at the Met Office since 1994, including time at the Cardiff Weather Centre where from April 1995 she appeared on BBC Wales. She joined the BBC Weather Centre in October 1997, presenting primarily on BBC News 24 initially. She has been a regular national BBC TV forecaster since February 1999.
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Fresh from her time on national breakfast contractor TV-am - where she was a researcher and later, weather presenter - Trish presented the weather on TSW in the late-1980s, taking over from long-serving Trevor Appleton. After a short stay with TSW, Trish handed over the reins to Andy Yeatman.
In the early-1990s, Trish was an ITV national weather presenter.
She left ITV to work mainly on travel documentaries; she was also employed on BBC contracts in East Anglia and other regions, including Humberside and the South West. More recently, she had been working for BBC Three.
Trish was the daughter of BBC Two's long-serving 'Man Alive' reporter, Harold Williamson. Harry also made a name for himself with 'Children Talking On Braden's Week' in the 1970s.
Sadly, Trish died in a car accident on Friday November 09 2007; her car swerved off the road at Weybread on the Suffolk-Norfolk border, ending up in a field. She had been on her way to her home at Harleston after picking up the keys to a new property at Fressingfield. She was 52.
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Wincey was a weather presenter at Tyne Tees Television and from May 1983, TV-am. She also presented other features whilst at TV-am, including 'Wincey's Pets' and 'Wincey's Wall'. She left TV-am in 1987.
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Born in 1971, Sarah has worked at the Met Office since 1993 and at the Southampton Weather Centre where she got her first broadcasting experience appearing on local TV and radio. In 1996 she moved to the London Weather Centre and was broadcasting on BBC Radio 5 Live. Joined the BBC Weather Centre in December 1997, working primarily on BBC World and BBC Prime. She has been a regular forecaster on all BBC TV channels since June 1999 and left in 2005.
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Francis worked as a Met Office forecaster from 1972 until 1978 when he became a forecaster at Thames TV. In 1983 he moved to the BBC to become the main weather presenter on 'Breakfast Time', where computer graphics were used for the first time in weather forecasts on the BBC.
Francis remained with the BBC for ten years. He then switched to Sky, where he has been presenting weather bulletins ever since. Francis has won the title of Best Television Weather Presenter - Worldwide at the International Television Weather Forecasters Festival in 1995, 1997, 2000 and 2003.
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Reporter and 'action girl' presenter for TSW's local news magazine programmes, who found her niche with community action type stories. Rene was always in her element during TSW's Telethons, and being very 'hands on' was often involved in various charity stunts. Still occasionally seen on Westcountry screens as a relief weather presenter on ITV Westcountry.Jay joined the Met Office in 1999 as a trainee forecaster and began an intensive fourteen month programme at the Met Office college which included six months forecasting at RAF Northolt. Having successfully completed the training he joined the BBC Weather Centre team in October 2000. He appeared originally within local weather inserts in the BBC South East region and later on BBC World and BBC Radio 4.Employed by the Meteorological Office, Andy Yeatman was the final TSW weatherman, taking over the role from Trish Williamson who left the company in the late-1980s.
Helen was born in 1969 and worked at the Met Office from 1990 until 2005. She moved to the Bristol Weather Centre in February 1993 and appeared as a forecaster on local TV for BBC Bristol. Joined the BBC Weather Centre in November 1993 and was appointed Deputy Manager in April 1998 and made senior forecaster in January 2000. Helen left the BBC in 2005, making her final broadcast on November 11 2005.
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An early career as a drama teacher and then a radio announcer for BBC Wales stood Dilwyn Young-Jones in good stead for a move to television in the early-1980s when he joined HTV Wales as a continuity announcer.
He has also presented several children's programmes and in 1995 became HTV Wales' main weatherman. Dilwyn left weather presentation in January 2002 when presentation for this was moved to Birmingham, but is still heard today on HTV Wales continuity duty as a freelance announcer.
