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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.
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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.
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BBC TV weather forecaster from 1956 until 1958. He died in 1979.
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Jack was a BBC TV forecaster from 1956 until 1965. Worked at the Met Office from 1947 until 1983. He died in 1984.
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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.
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 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.
Image courtesy of Paul R Jackson.
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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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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.
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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.
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 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.
Image courtesy of Paul R Jackson.
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HTV West's weatherman in the 1980s and early-1990s.
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 Tyne Tees TV and Yorkshire TV weather presenter since early-2001.
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HTV West weatherman from the early and mid-1980s.
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Ursula joined RTÉ in 2007, working initially as a continuity announcer on RTÉ One. She later took on weather presenting duties, in addition to her announcing role.
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 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.
Image courtesy of Paul R Jackson.
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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).
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 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.
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 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.
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 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.
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 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.
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 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.
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 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 & 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.
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Celebrated harpist who joined S4C as an in-vision announcer in the late-1980s. Launched S4C in-vision weather service. Left early-1990s.
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 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".
Image courtesy of Paul R Jackson.
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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.
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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.
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(Later Audra Thomas). Audra joined UTV c. 1997 as a continuity announcer/news reader. She also occasionally presented the weather on the main evening news programme.
It is believed that Audra left UTV in 2007.
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 (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 & 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.
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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.
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 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.
Image courtesy of Paul R Jackson.
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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.
Image courtesy of Paul R Jackson.
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Regular weather presenter on Channel Television.
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 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.
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 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.
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 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.
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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.
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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.
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 (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.
Image courtesy of Paul R Jackson.
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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.
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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.
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Karen started off as a researcher on TV Three's 'Ireland AM' in 2004. She is also a relief weather presenter on the programme.
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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.
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Mainstay of Border TV's news team since the 1980s; occasional co-presenter of 'Lookaround', and also a Border weather presenter.
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 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.
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 (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.
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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.
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 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.
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 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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