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Born in Dublin, Eamonn Andrews began sports commentating for Radio Éireann in 1939 and subsequently worked on various programmes for BBC Radio, including 'Sports Report' between 1950 and 1962.
On television he hosted the BBC's parlour game 'What's My Line?' (1951 - 1963), 'Crackerjack' (1955 - 1964), ABC Television's 'World Of Sport' (1965 - 1968) and 'This is Your Life' until his death in 1987.
He joined Thames Television from ABC in 1968 and was the first anchor of its nightly news magazine programme 'Today' until 1977. At the same time, he was active as a chat show host and children's programmes presenter, as well as being a keen businessman.
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Started her career as a reporter/presenter for Border Television in the early-1980s before becoming one of ITN's main newscasters (March 1987 until 1992). She was the first co-anchor on GMTV in 1993, and later returned to Border TV as one of the anchors of the relaunched 'Lookaround' news programme.
She also fronted a cookery series called 'Easy As Pie' for Carlton Food Network where she demonstrated her skills in the kitchen. Fiona has also featured in a series of programmes for Granada TV on 'Health And Slimming'. She also regularly chairs major conferences and award ceremonies.
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Pamela was an ITN newscaster from November 1983 until August 1986. She was the presenter of BBC TV's 'Daytime Live', 1987 - 1988.
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BBC TV sports reporter, 1985 - 1986. He joined ITN in October 1986 as a sports correspondent whose first assignment was to cover England's successful Ashes tour of Australia as well as the America's Cup.
He stayed for four months in Australia and unexpectedly found himself reporting on the extraordinary "Spycatcher" trial.
He has covered all the major sporting events for ITN, including the Olympics, Wimbledon, the British Open, Rugby internationals, football news and cricket.
In 1995 he was seconded to ITV to report from South Africa on the 1995 Rugby World Cup. Since joining ITN in he has specialised in covering foreign events, travelling all round the globe. Based in Hong Kong in 1993 as Asia correspondent, he returned from 1996 until 1998 reporting on all the major events in the region including the handover of the island to the Chinese in July 1997.
From 1994 until 1996 he was based in Johannesburg as Africa correspondent. He returned to London in mid-1998 and since 1999 has been a special/senior correspondent. Occasional newscaster of weekend news bulletins on ITV and the ITN News Channel in August 1998 and since October 1999.
In May 2001 he presented ITV's reality game show 'Survivor'.
Since c. 2004, Mark became a more regular face in the newscaster's chair. He took over from Sir Trevor McDonald as the main anchor of late night weekday news programme on ITV in December 2005.
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ITN newscaster who worked on 'Channel 4 News', 1989 - 1998 and also the ITV 'Morning News', 1990s. Zeinab was also a presenter on 'Channel 4 Daily' in 1990.
In 1998, she joined the BBC, and spent five years working on live political programmes based at Westminster. She then moved to radio, where she presented 'The World Tonight' on BBC Radio 4 and 'Newshour' on the BBC World Service.
In April 2005, Zeinab was announced as the new presenter of 'BBC Four News'.
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Joined ITN as a reporter in 1975. She was an ITN newscaster from 1982 until March 1989 and also between January 1991 and 1998.
Carol was a presenter on the 'Channel 4 Daily' from 1989 until 1990 and also appeared as a relief newscaster on Channel 4's 'The Big Breakfast' in 2001.
In 2003, she presented on the ITV News Channel during the early days of the Gulf War.
Carol returned to ITN for one night (23 September 2005), as part of their 50th anniversary celebrations, to co-present the 'ITV Evening News'.
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Felicity started in radio in 1991; in 1994, she went freelance as a journalist, offering her services to various TV and radio companies.
In 1996, she moved to Meridian TV, where she was a sports reporter and presenter, fronting the sports news on 'Meridian Tonight. She also presented the local football programme there - 'A406'.
In 1999, she moved to London and became a presenter and reporter with 'London Tonight'.
Felicity joined ITV News in June 2001, starting as a sports correspondent. She later became a regular sports news presenter. Felicity also presented on the ITV News Channel and fronted ITV News bulletins on an occasional basis.
From September 2006, Felicity has been an anchor on Al Jazeera International.
Main anchor of 'Westcountry Live' who took over the role from David Foster early in 1997. Richard was already well known to television news viewers as an ITN newscaster on the overnight service and during 'This Morning', and, before that, was one of the main anchors of BBC South East's 'London Plus' in the mid-1980s.
Sports reporter with Southern Television (1974 - 1981) who moved over to TVS. He became the main sportscaster on the station when previous incumbent Fred Dineage was elevated to main anchor of the South edition of 'Coast To Coast' around 1984. David is now a presenter with Sky Sports, which he joined in 1993 after a spell as a freelance presenter for ITN, Channel 4 and Meridian Broadcasting.
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Joined ITN as a reporter in 1955. He served as a reporter until 1967, including 'Roving Report' in 1957, 'Dateline London', 1961 - 1962 and 'Dateline', 1962 - 1967.
He joined ITN's newscasting team in December 1961 until 1962 and again from 1967 until November 1979, famous for fronting the flagship 'News At Ten'. He was diplomatic correspondent for four years and an original member of the 'News At Ten' team in 1967. He appeared on six election nights from 1959 to 1979.
Reginald died on 27 May 1984.
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Frank was a presenter on BBC North East's regional news programme from 1962 until 1964.
The former BBC TV 'Grandstand' and 'Breakfast Time' anchorman joined LWT in the late-1980s to present 'Six O'Clock Live', the company's flagship news programme introduced as a response to the IBA's concern about its previously poor local news output.
This news programme was complemented by 'LWT News' through the rest of the weekend. Frank also did a stint as presenter of TV-am's 'Good Morning Britain'. He also worked for Sky News in the early days where he presented 'The Frank Bough Interview', and also presented the Rugby Union World Cup on ITV in 1991.
He presented shows on LBC radio in the mid-1990s. His most recent TV appearance was a guest appearance on the 'Grandstand' 40th anniversary special.
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Tim was born on December 24 1929, and educated at Summer Fields, Eton and Geneva University. After National Service, he trained as an actor at the Central School of Speech and Drama. In the early-1950s, he joined the BBC as a radio announcer. From 1955 to 1957, he headed Radio Hong Kong’s English programmes. He then returned to the UK, and joined BBC TV, where he was an in-vision announcer and news reader. In 1959, he moved to the 'other side', to become one of ITN's first newscasters. His debonair good looks and deep, velvet voice made him very popular.
Tim’s career as a broadcaster in radio and television covered an enormous repertoire. He presented 'Roundabout' on the Light Programme, and produced special documentary features for ITN and Pathe Pictorial. Sports fans will remember him from ITV’s 'Let’s Go'. He interviewed the Shah of Iran before his downfall, and during a report on Turkish Baths, he unintentionally became the first nude newscaster on television - an event still remembered by many. He also made cameo appearances as a newscaster in various feature films. Among the television commercials he presented were the 'Stork Margarine Challenge' and the 'Daily Sketch'. In 1977, he presented a spoof science programme for Anglia Television called 'Alternative Three', in which millions were duped into thinking that scientists were being taken to colonise the moon because earth was doomed.
In 1975, he was elected to Kent County Council in a by-election, and returned unopposed for a second term. He was appointed to the Court of London University as a County Councillor. In 1979, he was elected as the Conservative MP for Gravesend, winning the seat from Labour with a large majority. He left Parliament in 1987, and continued his broadcasting consultancy, training many broadcasters, businessmen and politicians; he also chaired a District Health Authority.
Tim died on Sunday March 22 2009, aged 79. He married twice, and has six children.
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ITN newscaster, August 1956 until 1965.
(Sir). One of ITN's most famous newscasters, Alastair Burnet joined ITN as political editor in 1963 for a year. He went on to report for 'Dateline', 1963 - 1964, and 'Dateline Westminster' at the same time.
He became a relief ITN newscaster from February 1963 until 1964 and became permanent as an original member of 'News At Ten' team in July 1967 until 1972.
He left to join BBC TV's 'Panorama' as a presenter from 1972 until 1974.
Burnet returned to the ITN newscasting team from June 1976 until August 1991. He has also presented Thames TV's 'TV Eye' and 'This Week'. During his career, he also had spells in print journalism as editor, The Economist, 1965 - 1974, and Daily Express, 1974 - 1976. He was knighted in 1984.
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Presenter, BBC Bristol's 'Points West', 1983 - 1985 then moved to London as a news reader on 'London Plus' in 1985. She became a London regional and national news reader on BBC TV's 'Breakfast Time', 1985 - 1986. BBC TV news reader on 'News Afternoon' and 'News View' from March 1986 until December 1986.
She left for ITN in June 1987 and stayed until June 1992. After this she was a relief presenter on ITV's 'The Time, The Place' in 1993. She was a news reader on BBC World in 1992 and since 1994 has been heard voicing 'Transworld Sports' on Channel 4.
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Jilly's first TV presenting job was with TSW in the 1980s, where she was a news reader. By the late-1980s, she was presenting national BBC TV news bulletins. She subsequently moved to ITN, where she presented bulletins for ITV and the 'Channel Four Daily'.
Jilly currently runs a media skills company (link below).
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David Cass joined BBC TV 'Look East' in February 1973 and during his time there was a general news reporter and weekend news reader. While there, he opened the 'West of the region' operation, based in Huntingdon, in 1975.
David moved to national BBC TV news in 1977 as a freelance general reporter before specialising in sport and then joining the full-time staff in 1978 until 1984.
He then joined ITN. During his time there he was the launch presenter of ITN's night-time service 'Into The Night' (from 1988), and Washington presenter/correspondent of 'Channel 4 Daily' from 1990 until 1992.
From 1993 until 1998 he was a regular presenter for BBC World Television. He also developed the 'Newshour Asia And Pacific' strand.
In more recent years, David has worked as a TV presenter and consultant in the Middle East.
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Andrea's broadcasting career began in 1985 at the age of 16 when she joined BBC Northern Ireland as a presenter on a youth current affairs programme.
Andrea joined Ulster Television in 1990 where she spent three years as a news and features reporter. In 1993, she moved to NBC Asia (NBC's business news network for the Asia Pacific region) in Hong Kong as a news reporter. Subsequently she became one of their main news presenters, anchoring coverage of special events including the handover of Hong Kong to China
She joined ITN in April 1998 as a relief newscaster and senior reporter. Later she was the company's medical correspondent in 1999 and then international correspondent for ITV News.
During 2000 she anchored the main evening news programme on Channel 5.
She rejoined the ITV newsroom in January 2001. She remains a regular news presenter on ITV news programmes.
(Sir). Former athlete who represented Great Britain in the 1952 and 1956 Olympic Games. He became ITN's first newscaster on 22 September 1955 and stayed until May 1956.
Chataway left to join the reporting team on BBC TV's 'Panorama' until 1959. He was a narrator on BBC Two's 'Horizon' from 1966 to 1968.
He left broadcasting for politics and was a Conservative MP from 1959 until 1966 and 1969 until 1974. He served as a Government Minister from 1970 until 1974. Left for business management, and was knighted in 1995.
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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.
(Sir). Former barrister famous for his political interviewing, including nine election nights from 1964 until 1992. After a period as a BBC radio producer, he joined ITN in 1955 at its launch as a newscaster and parliamentary correspondent from 23 September 1955. He also presented 'Roving Report' in 1957.
He left ITN in 1959 to join the reporting team on BBC TV's 'Panorama' and later presented the programme from 1967 to 1972.
He presented BBC TV's 'Newsday' from 1974 until 1976, 'Tonight' from 1978 until 1979, and BBC Radio 4's 'The World At One' from 1979 until 1987. He chaired BBC TV's political discussion programme 'Question Time' from 1979 until 1989 and presented Channel 4's 'The Parliament Programme' in 1992. He was knighted in 1981 and died on 6 August 2000.
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Katie's journalistic career started in 1995 with the BBC as a researcher on BBC Radio 4's 'Moneybox'. She later presented on BBC Radio 5 Live's 'Moneycheck' and edited BBC Radio 4's 'Financial World Tonight' programme.
She made the move to TV in 1996 becoming BBC News consumer affairs correspondent and later a reporter on 'Film '96' and 'Film 97'.
Katie moved to ITN in January 1998, where she presented weekend ITV bulletins initially. She was voted New TV Talent of the Year in March 1999 at the Television and Radio Industries Club (TRIC) Awards.
Since the early-2000s, Katie has been a regular presenter on many of the main ITV news programmes. She currently co-anchors the 'Lunchtime News' with Nicholas Owen as well co-presenting on 'London Tonight', alongside Alastair Stewart mainly.
Veteran South of England broadcast legend with plenty of exposure to the national ITV network. Fred started out as a sports reporter and presenter on Southern, and filled the same role on TVS until he replaced Khalid Aziz as the main anchor on the South edition of 'Coast To Coast'. He was retained by Meridian, and still presents 'Meridian Tonight' to this day.
During his time with the three stations, Fred has presented several networked programmes, including wrestling for ITV Sport, 'Gambit' (Anglia), 'How' (Southern/TVS) and 'Vintage Quiz' (TVS). He also used to stand in for Dickie Davies on 'World Of Sport'.
Fred has also written a book about the Kray twins - they approached him to author it after watching him on the box and deciding that they liked the cut of his gib. Fred presented the final programme on TVS, 'Goodbye To All That' and has fronted several specials for successors, Meridian.
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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Joined Granada TV in 1974 for a job on the company's news desk. Presenter, BBC TV's 'Man Alive' and 'Tomorrow's World', 1977. ITN newscaster between March 1978 and March 1981, and medical correspondent in 1980. She left ITN to help set up TV-am as one of the original "Famous Five", but left after a bitter boardroom battle shortly after the company started in April 1983.
BBC TV news reader since February 1989, on the 'One O'Clock News' and 'Six O'Clock News'. She was a regular presenter on BBC Radio 4's 'Today', from 1993 to 1998. Became the main anchor of the relaunched BBC TV 'One O'Clock News' programme, from May 1999.
Anna retired from news presenting in April 2006.
Started his journalistic career at international news agency Reuters, and is best known for his time as an ITN newscaster from 1967 until December 1990 (ITN's longest serving newscaster with 23 years' service) and also a news reporter, 1963 - 1992.
He was an original member of the 'News At Ten' team in 1967. Later he became famous for his frontline reports from Afghanistan.
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A former ITN newscaster (he joined ITN in 1961), who co-hosted 'News At Ten' with Reginald Bosanquet and Alastair Burnet, Gardner moved to Thames Television in 1977 to front the newly relaunched local news magazine programme 'Thames News' which replaced 'Today' and 'Thames At Six'.
He stayed in this role until shortly before Thames went off the air at the end of 1992, and it was Gardner who announced to London viewers that Thames had lost the franchise in 1991.
Andrew Gardner died on April 2 1999, but is still remembered with great affection by television viewers in London and the South East.
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Shiulie has a BA (Hons) law degree from the University of Kent.
In 1990, Shiulie started her television career as a news trainee at the BBC and went on to report for the BBC's 'East Midlands Today'. By 1991 she was regularly presenting their half-hour news slot.
In 1993, she joined the BBC's 'Country File' programme as a presenter and this was followed by a move in 1995 to 'Newsroom South East' as a reporter/presenter.
She joined ITN as a reporter in January 1998 and covered major events both at home and abroad. Later. she became ITN's home affairs editor working on its news service for ITV. She also occasionally presented ITV News programmes.
In July 2006, it was announced that Shiulie was to leave ITV News to join Al-Jazeera's English-language service, Al-Jazeera English. Shiulie was the opening anchor on the channel's launch in Doha on November 15 2006. In addition to her news presenting duties there, she also hosts 'Every Woman', a show focusing on women's issues.
Jonny was a sports reporter with BSB from 1990 to 1991. From 1997 until 2001 he was a sports/news presenter at Channel 5. He then moved to ITV Sport as a football presenter; he remained in this role until 2003.
However, during 2002, Jonny was also a football narrator for Channel 4's 'Football Italia' and a football reporter for Prem Plus.
Since 2008, Jonny has been a news commentator for Sky News, where he reviews the newspapers and provides comment and analysis on sports events at weekends.
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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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1990s Anglia News journalist/presenter who moved to ITN where she presented on the ITN News Channel and on the 'ITV Early Morning News'.
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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Reporter, BBC Southampton's 'South Today', 1968 until 1976 and a presenter of the programme in 1988. He presented BBC Bristol's 'Points West' from 1976 to 1982. He was a BBC TV national news reader, July 1985 until October 1987 and between February 1988 until December 1997, appearing on the 'One O'Clock News', 'Six O'Clock News', 'Nine O'Clock News' and 'News View'. Also a presenter of BBC TV's 'Breakfast News' 1993 - TBC. More recently he has appeared on BBC News 24 and as one of the main anchors for the ITV News Channel.
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Joining the station fresh from a post-graduate course in journalism, Katy Haswell was Westcountry's first 'Westcountry Live' co-anchor, presenting the programme with experienced hand David Foster from the beginning of 1993. A vivacious character, Katy went on to front news bulletins for London News Network and ITN's News Channel, and was the subject of a pictorial feature in lads' mag FHM.
Katy left Westcountry in late-1994 to pursue her national career and was replaced on the anchor set by Alison John.
Katy was an ITN newscaster on 'World News' and 'Morning News', September 1995 - 1996. She was also relief presenter on LNN's 'London Tonight' in December 1997 and presented the late night bulletins in July 1997 and since April 1998.
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Sasha has presented on the ITV News Channel, ITV 1 summaries, 'ITV Morning News' and 'London Tonight'; she has also been a news reporter for ITV News and Sky News and a features reporter for '5 News'.
Sasha appears regularly on LBC radio as a commentator and guest.
She specialises in music, and also Chinese politics and history, and speaks Mandarin Chinese.
Alex was a weather presenter with STV in the 1980s and later ITV Network from 1989 until the early-1990s.
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Cornishman Gordon Honeycombe was a reporter and news reader for ITN (1965 - 1977) who joined TV-am as the main news bulletin reader (1984 - 1989). Honeycombe always seemed warm but stern while on screen. Off camera, he was a flamboyant, fun-loving character with a devilish sense of humour.
Gordon now lives in Australia.
He returned to ITN for one night (22 September 2005), as part of their 50th anniversary celebrations, to co-present the 'ITV Evening News'.
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Nina studied English language and linguistics at Durham University, before gaining a post-graduate diploma in broadcast journalism at the University of Central Lancashire, Preston.
On graduating, Nina was selected for a traineeship at Border Television in Carlisle. Whilst there, she was a reporter, presenter and producer.
In 2000, Nina moved to London take up a presenting job with The Medical Channel. In 2001, she joined the BBC and became a regular presenter and reporter on 'BBC London News'.
In November 2004, Nina moved to ITN where she has presented on 'London Tonight'. Since early-2006 she has been the regular co-presenter of the 'ITV Evening News'.
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Jackie is currently a freelance TV presenter, reporter and writer.
She can regularly be seen reporting for ITV News, and occasionally presenting the 'ITV Morning News'. She also presents bulletins for ITV London, including late-night updates and the early-morning GMTV summaries. She is also a regular presenter on Setanta Sports News.
Jackie was born in Coventry but brought up in Ireland. She studied zoology at Trinity College, Dublin. She spent several years writing articles for scientific journals and PR material for pharmaceutical companies, before moving to Jersey to take a job as a trainee reporter on the Jersey Evening Post. Two years later, she was offered a job at Jersey's Channel TV.
After six months, she moved back to the mainland and quickly landed a job as a reporter and presenter at ITV West in Bristol.
Between 1996 and 1998, Jackie worked her way up through the ranks of HTV, from crime reporter and co-presenter of a crime series and various documentaries, to regular presenter of the station's news programmes.
She then decided to go freelance, picking up reporting/presenting roles at ITV Central, Five and GMTV.
GMTV later offered Jackie a contract. During her time there, she covered a number of major news stories, including the Soham murders, the Washington sniper attacks, the 2004 Athens Olympics, the aftermath of the Asian tsunami and the disappearance of Madeleine McCann.
In January 2008, Jackie left GMTV to work as a freelance TV reporter/presenter.
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Rex was an ITN newscaster from October 1955 to January 1956. From 1956 to 1970, he was responsible for UNESCO's English radio and television programmes.Website
Reporter BBC TV's 'Panorama', 1958 - 1962 and presenter in 1982. Reporter, 'This Week', 1965 - 1968. ITN newscaster on lunchtime programme 'First Report', October 1972 until January 1976. In 1980 he both wrote and presented 'Ireland - A Television History'. Appeared briefly as one of the 'famous five' on TV-am 1983 - 1984. Appeared on seven election nights, 1959 - 1974 and in 1983.
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ITN newscaster 1959 - 1966 and reporter 1959 - 1961 including 'Roving Report' in 1961.
(Sir). ITN newscaster from April 1956 until 1958. Reporter, BBC TV's 'Panorama', 1960 - 1963, '24 Hours', 1969 - 1972, 'Tonight', 1976 - 1978 and ITV's 'This Week', 1958 - 1960.
He was also presenter of BBC Radio 4's 'The World At One', 1965 - 1966, BBC TV's 'Midweek', 1972 - 1975, 'Newsday', 1975 - 1976 and 'Did You See...?', 1980 - 1988.
He was also relief chairman of BBC TV's 'Question Time'.
Ludovic was knighted in 1994.
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Relief ITN newscaster from July 1990.
Anne took over as Wendy Nelson's immediate replacement on 'Central News' from Birmingham. She went on to newscast for ITN (August 1983 until October 1990), and presented 'Channel 4 Daily' in 1990. In more recent times she has presented on the BBC's Newcastle edition of 'Look North'.
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Began his career with BBC Northern Ireland in 1966, moving to HTV Wales as a reporter in 1968. He was an ITN reporter from 1970 - 1986 with newscasting duties in 1977 and from 1981 - September 1986. He defected to the BBC in October 1986 to present the 'One O'Clock News' and later moved to the 'Nine O'Clock News' and 'Six O' Clock News'.
He caused some controversy by calling for more 'good news' to be included in bulletins. He left the BBC news team in May 1999.
Martyn has also hosted quiz shows, such as BBC Two's 'The Day Today'. Other presenting roles include 'Songs Of Praise'.
Martyn returned to ITN for one night (21 September 2005), as part of their 50th anniversary celebrations, to co-present the 'ITV Evening News'.
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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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ITN newscaster, October 1955 until January 1956.ITN newscaster in 1959.
(Allada Barbara Grenville-Wells). Barbara was the first female to present the news on a national television service in the UK. She was an ITN newscaster from September 23 1955 - combining this with general reporting duties - until 1957. She continued working at ITN until her retirement in its 25th anniversary year in 1980. She died on August 25 1998.
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Becky is weather presenter on ITV 1.
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James graduated from Leeds University in 1983, with an Honours degree in international history and politics. He joined the ITN Graduate Training Scheme in 1983. He has been with the company ever since. Among the positions he has held at ITN: in 1986, he became a general reporter; Tokyo correspondent of ITN's World News on Channel 4's first early morning service, 'Channel 4 Daily' (1989); North of England correspondent (1991); Moscow correspondent (1991 - 1993); diplomatic editor (1993 - 1996); Washington correspondent (1997 - 2002).
James is currently ITN's senior correspondent and has made regular appearances in the news presenters chair on ITV 1 since 2002.
(Sir). Trevor McDonald began his TV career in 1962 in his native Trinidad and joined the BBC World Service in 1969. He moved to ITN in 1971 as a reporter. Later he was sports correspondent (1978), diplomatic correspondent (1980 - 1987) and diplomatic editor in 1987.
He was a relief ITN newscaster from January 1973 until September 1977 and between 1989 and 1990. He presented ITN's flagship programme 'News At Ten' from 1990 until 1999, first as co-presenter and from November 1992 as the sole presenter.
Was co-presenter with Sandy Gall on the last 'News At Ten' broadcast from ITN's old Wells Street studios in December 1990.
In February 1990, after several earlier visits to Southern Africa, visited Johannesburg to report Nelson Mandela's release from prison and carried out the first British TV interview with him. In November 1990, just prior to the Gulf War, he interviewed Saddam Hussein in Baghdad. The interview was broadcast around the world and is to date the only British TV interview with the Iraqi President.
Co-presenter on ITV's 1995 World Cup Rugby coverage. Presenter 'Tonight With Trevor McDonald', since its launch in April 1999. Since 1996 he has presented the annual National Television Awards, from the Royal Albert Hall. He has appeared on three election nights, 1979 - 1992, and he was knighted in 1999.
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Worked as a diplomat and for The Economist for two years, before joining ITN in 1973 as a reporter and diplomatic correspondent. Later joined the newscasting team and left in 1979.
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Main sports presenter of London News Network's 'London Tonight' until he moved to national news operator ITN.
Ivor started out as a music teacher. He later moved into broadcasting, initially with Ulster Television, where he was an announcer and news reader. He subsequently moved to national news broadcaster, ITN, where he was a reporter, from 1965 to 1967, and a newscaster, from 1967 to 1978.
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Saima studied politics at the University of Birmingham and also has a post-grad in Broadcast Journalism. She has worked for BBC Radio WM, BBC Greater Manchester Radio and the BBC World Service. Her TV credits include producer/reporter/presenter at Meridian TV, reporter for Sky News and Five News, and presenter with BBC 'Points West'.
Saima is currently working with ITV News as a presenter on the 'ITV Morning News'.
Nazanine is a former presenter/reporter with ITV News - 'ITV Morning News' and 'London Today'. She was also a reporter for BBC Radio 1's 'Newsbeat'. Since 2006, she has been presenting and reporting for Al Jazeera English.
Nazanine has a postgraduate diploma in Journalism from the University of Westminster and a BA (Hons) in Modern Europe Studies from University College London. She speaks Farsi, Italian, French and plays tennis.
Nazanine's sister Maryam Moshiri is a presenter and reporter at the BBC.
Dermot was a presenter on Channel 4's 'Business Daily' and 'Channel 4 Daily' in 1990.
ITN newscaster from February 1992 until 2002. Presenter on Carlton TV's 'The Big Story', 1993 until 1997.
He joined BBC TV's 'Breakfast' in September 2002.
Bill's broadcasting career began with BBC Northern Ireland in 1981. He worked in radio initially but two years later he moved into television. In 1987 he moved to the BBC in London, reporting on the Iran/Iraq war for 'Breakfast Time'. Two years later, he switched to Sky News as a reporter/presenter, where he stayed for six months before joined ITN.
At ITN, he was Washington correspondent (1991 - 1997), then Europe correspondent (1997 - 2002). In 2002 he was appointed international editor. Since c. 2002, Bill has also presented some of the main news programmes on ITV News from time to time.
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ATV and then Central's chief sportscaster who is best known nationally for fronting many ITV Sport productions.
His only permanent work in front of camera these days is interviewing players after football matches for the ITV network. He is more often a sports producer and has produced various sports programmes, both nationally and for the Central region. Gary was a presenter at Talk Radio and it's successor, Talk Sport, where he remained until c. January 2002. Gary also plays cricket for the MCC.
Gary travelled to Japan and South Korea for the 2002 World Cup, where he was responsible for giving daily reports from the England camp on ITV and for doing some of the post match interviews.
Gary was also responsible for overseeing sports programming on Carlton. He is a senior figure at ITV Sport.
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ITN reporter from many famous war zones - including the Falklands (his 14th conflict) and the Gulf War - since 1965.
He was a relief ITN newscaster on the 'News At 5.45', from April 1982 until March 1986. He was Southern Africa correspondent from 1976 until 1981. He has also reported on 'ITN Reports' and Channel 4's 'The World This Week'.
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Mary began her journalism career as a presenter and writer on 'World Business Satellite' for TV Tokyo. She then went on to work for BBC World Service Television's 'World Business Report' as a presenter and writer.
She worked for Reuters Financial Television in 1994 as a presenter on the early morning financial programme, transmitted to city dealers at their desks, and on bulletins issued throughout the day. From 1993 until April 1999 she was co-presenter of LNN's flagship news programme 'London Tonight' and also presented 'London Today', Carlton's lunchtime magazine programme.
In 1995 she co-presented on ITV's 1995 World Cup Rugby coverage and presented weekend editions of ITN's 'World News' service. Re-joined ITN in January 2001 to co-present the 'ITV Evening News' as well as the full range of news programmes on ITV.
Mary played a key role in ITV Election 2001, presenting constant updates and constituency results during the eight hour broadcast.
Other TV credits: presenter 'Wish You Were Here..?' (1999 - 2001, ITV); 'The Really Good Food Show'; 'I-Spy'; 'Most Wanted'.
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In 1981 he switched to TV reporting from newspapers and joined the BBC in the North East of England covering industrial stories for regional and national programmes.
He joined ITN in 1984 as 'Channel 4 News' business and economics correspondent. Later, he was royal correspondent, 1993 - 2000, and later special correspondent for ITN's news service on ITV. He was one of the original presenters of Channel 4's daytime political series, 'The Parliament Programme', in the late-1980s.
He began newscasting for ITN from 1986 including ITN's 'Weekend News' on ITV, 'Channel 4 News' and 'News At Ten'. He's now one of the main presenters of ITV's 'Lunchtime News'.
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Most famous as one of ITN's main faces from the 1970s until his untimely death in the early-1990s. Leonard Parkin was also one of the BBC's early television news reporters in the 1950s.
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Norman was an ITN news reporter from 1977 until 1984 and in 1989. He was also an occasional newscaster on 'Weekend News' and 'News At 5.45' from March 1983 until November 1983.
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ITV national weather presenter who also presents forecasts for ITV London. 
Anglia Television sports reporter, presenter and commentator in the late-1970s and early-1980s. Steve also presented on ITV's coverage of the Moscow Olympics in 1980 as well as fronting the network's 'World Of Sport' and 'Midweek Sport Special'.
He moved to the BBC in 1985 where he achieved national fame as a presenter of 'Grandstand' and 'Sportsnight'. Steve presented many sports programmes for the BBC but specialised in golf.
Steve moved to ITV in Autumn 2005; he now fronts the network's coverage of Formula 1 racing.
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Chris' first reporting job was with BBC Five 5 youth programme 'Vibe'. He later presented for Buzz FM in Birmingham in 1990, Hallam FM in 1991 and then London’s Capital FM.
In 1994, he became the youngest ever presenter of the BBC's 'Newsround' programme. He later filed reports for BBC 'Breakfast', the 'Six O'Clock News', 'Nine O'Clock News' and BBC World Service.
After five years with 'Newsround', Chris moved to Sky News as a reporter. In September 2001, he became a regular presenter on the channel. He was on air when news of the terrorist attacks broke on September 11th.
In April 2002, Chris also presented on Channel 4's breakfast programme 'RI:SE', which was co-produced by Sky. He was back with Sky News during its coverage of the war on Iraq. He also presented on the 'Nightly News' programme for LBC 97.3 FM.
In 2003, Chris moved to ITV News, presenting five days a week on the ITV News Channel. He also presented some ITV 1 weekend bulletins. Since the closure of the ITV News Channel, Chris has switched mainly to reporting and presenting for ITV 1's 'London Tonight'. He also occasionally fronts the sports news on ITV 1's 'Nightly News'.
Chris can also be heard on BBC Radio 5 Live, mostly at weekends.
ITN reporter and relief ITN newscaster on 'Morning News', January 1990 until November 1993.ITN newscaster on the 'Weekend News', news summaries and 'Morning News' from October 1988 until August 1990.ITN newscaster on 'Lunchtime News' and news summaries between March 1992 and May 1993. Later, joined CNN as a newscaster.
Selina started as journalist with DC Thomson in Dundee, and prior to joining Grampian TV in 1978, she was the publicity officer for the Isle of Bute. She presented on 'Grampian Today' (which became 'North Tonight' in 1980). However, Network ITV beckoned - she was head-hunted by ITN and joined 'News At Ten' in July 1981.
Poached by the BBC in 1983, Selina was part of the launch presenting team of the Corporation's new breakfast television offering, 'Breakfast Time'. A few years later she moved on to present other BBC programmes, including 'The Clothes Show'. She left the BBC in the early-1990s.
Selina returned to ITN for one night (September 20 2005), as part of their 50th anniversary celebrations, to co-present the 'ITV Evening News'.
HTV West's sports presenter in the early-1990s. By the mid-1990s Steve was working for ITN where his roles included North of England correspondent, West of England correspondent, Africa correspondent, Washington correspondent, foreign correspondent.
By the early-2000s, Steve had moved to a news reading role, initially on the ITN News Channel but later moving on to ITV news programmes.
Other radio/TV work: Radio West; GWR Radio; BBC Radio 5 Live.
ITN reporter from 1967 and an ITN newcaster from April 1978 until 1989 on the 'News At One', 'News At Ten' and the launch of 'Channel 4 News' in November 1982.
He joined BBC TV News in November 1989, presenting the 'Six O'Clock News' and later moved to the 'Nine O'Clock News' and its replacement 'Ten O'Clock News'.
Sissons also presented Question Time between 1989 and 1993. In March 2002, he became a scapegoat for the perceived 'anti-Royal bias' of the BBC's coverage of the death of HM Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother. His so-called crime, in the eyes of the Daily Mail and like-minded journals, was to wear a tie of slightly the wrong shade and to press her cousin, Hon Mary Rhodes, about what was said on her death bed.
Since 2003, Peter has presented the occasional weekday edition of the 'Ten O'Clock News' and some weekend BBC One bulletins. He is now seen mainly at weekends on BBC News 24.
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Jon's broadcasting career started off in local radio. He joined ITN in 1976. He was their Washington correspondent from 1984 and in 1986 he appointed diplomatic editor. Jon anchored ITN's General Election programme in 1992.
Jon is best known as the main anchor on 'Channel 4 News'. He joined the programme in April 1989 and within a matter of months he became its full-time presenter.
During his time with ITN, Jon has reported on many major news events both from the studio and on the ground.
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ITN reporter and newscaster before joining BBC Television where he became famous for his election night interpretation of voting data with his swingometer and, later, a raft of hi-tech graphics. He was a long serving presenter of BBC Two's 'Newsnight' and also anchored 'Tomorrow's World' in the late-1990s.
BBC Radio News - home Reporter, 1979 - 1981 and industrial/labour correspondent, 1981 - 1984. She gained TV experience in an attachment to BBC TV's 'Nationwide' as a reporter in 1983. She joined BBC TV News as news reader on the 'Nine O'Clock News' in July 1984, later moving to present the 'One O'Clock News' before leaving the BBC in August 1987.
Julia moved to ITN as a newscaster from September 1987. She presented her final broadcast in January 2000 on the 'ITV Lunchtime News' with John Suchet - saying "It is the final goodbye before moving on to other ITN projects. I have to say working on the Lunchtime News has been the happiest time of my career."
Unusually, Suchet then embraced her and gave her a kiss on air.
Julia later became a regular face on the ITN News Channel.
She later returned to ITN for one night (19 September 2005), as part of their 50th anniversary celebrations, to co-present the 'ITV Evening News'.
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Alastair's TV career began in 1976 with Southern Television, where he was a presenter and reporter.
He joined ITN in 1980 as industrial correspondent and moved into newscasting in 1981. He has presented virtually every ITV news programme at some point during his career.
Alastair was a presenter and reporter with 'Channel 4 News' in its early days. From 1983 he became involved in ITN's annual budget coverage programme for ITV; he was anchoring the programme from 1988. He co-anchored ITN's 1987, 1992 and 1997 General Election programmes. In 1986 he presented the 'ITN News At 5.40' on ITV. He had progressed to 'News At Ten' by 1989.
In 1993 Alastair became a regular presenter on 'London Tonight'; he is still with the programme at present.
In 1995 he presented 'Alastair Stewart's Sunday' on BBC Radio 5 Live. He later moved to GMTV where he hosted 'Alastair Stewart's Sunday Programme'; that programme continued until July 2001.
Alastair moved back to ITV News in 2003 to present coverage of the Iraq War on the ITV News Channel. He remained a regular face on the ITV News Channel until its closure in December 2005.
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ITN reporter, 1986 - 1988, 'Channel 4 News' USA correspondent and ITN diplomatic editor, 1990 - 1993 and a relief newscaster in September 1991.
He became a BBC TV news reader in April 1993, and then moved to radio where he is currently one of the main presenters of BBC Radio 4's agenda setting 'Today' programme.
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John started off with the Reuters news agency. He then moved to the BBC TV newsroom. After a short spell there he moved to ITN in 1972 as a reporter. He switched to newscasting in the mid-1980s. During his time in that role, he had been involved with virtually all of the main ITV news programmes.
He received awards for his roles both as a presenter and reporter winning Television Journalist Of The Year in 1986 and Television Newscaster of the Year in 1996.
John retired from ITN in 2004. However, in January 2006 he returned to our screens, presenting the Thursday and Friday editions of 'Five News', covering for Kirsty Young who went on maternity leave. In August 2006, John was offered a permanent role as anchor of 'Five News', working alongside Kirsty Young.
Away from news, John's has a keen interest in the life and work of Beethoven. John travels the country giving talks about the great composer and also makes regular appearances on BBC Radios 3 and 4 speaking on the subject.
John is a regular presenter on Classic FM.
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Chris Tarrant joined ATV as a junior news reporter in the early-1970s, but says that he soon discovered that hard news was not his cup of tea. Instead, he took on the mantle of action man for 'ATV Today' and got involved in a hands-on way with scores of wacky stories. He specialised in light-hearted and 'zany' items with fellow ATV partner in crime John Swallow and together managed to hunt down a huge number of the Midlands' eccentrics for the entertainment of ATV viewers.
This slapstick approach to news prepared him well for one of his best remembered television roles, as presenter of ATV's Saturday morning kids' show 'Tiswas', which, at first, ran for several years in the Midlands region before being nationally networked in the late-1970s and early-1980s. Chris and his team went on to produce an 'adult' version of the programme for ATV's successors, Central Television, but the programme was panned by the critics and failed to attract sufficient viewers, leading to it being dropped from the schedules.
For ATV, Chris also narrated the respected schools' programme, 'Stop, Look, Listen' in the 1970s.
He went on to become Britain's highest earning radio DJ on London's Capital Radio, and also a presenter of TV-am's 'Good Morning Britain', hosting the summer roadshows. Chris presented several national programmes for ITV, including 'Tarrant On TV' before finding his niche as host of the extremely popular 'Who Wants To Be A Millionaire'.
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ITN newscaster from 1956 until the mid-1960s.
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Owen's journey into broadcasting began on a BBC News Trainee Scheme in 1987.
Roles held during career to date: reporter and presenter for 'London Tonight'; reporter and presenter with BBC Radio 1's 'Newsbeat'; presenter, the business news on BBC News 24 and BBC World; presenter, 'ITV Morning News' and the ITV News Channel.
Owen co-presented during the last hour of the ITV News Channel.
(Sir). Ian Trethowan was deputy editor and political editor at ITN from 1958 until 1963. He was a reporter for various programmes during that period, including: 'Roving Report'; 'Dateline London', 1961 - 1962; 'Dateline Westminster', 1962 - 1963. Sir Ian was also a relief ITN newscaster in 1958 and from December 1961 until July 1962. He also co-presented on ITN's coverage of the general election in 1959.
In 1963, he moved to the BBC as a reporter. He appeared on the BBC's election night programmes and on '24 Hours' (1967).
In 1970, he became managing director of BBC Network Radio. From 1977 until 1982, he was director general of the BBC. He was knighted in 1980. In 1987, he became the chairman of Thames Television.
Sir Ian Trethowan died in December 1990, having suffered from motor neurone disease.
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Presenter of BBC TV's 'Late Night Line-Up', 1964 until 1967, 'Midweek', 1974, and 'Tonight', 1975 until 1979. Reporter, BBC TV's '24 Hours', 1967 until 1972 and 'Man Alive' between 1971 and 1974. ITN newscaster on the 'Morning News' and 'Weekend News' from April 1994 until c. the late-1990s. He now presents on RTÉ Radio in Ireland.Former national ITV Sport broadcaster and reporter who joined the Granada Tonight team as chief sportscaster in the mid-1990s. He left the company and now hosts a soccer show on Century FM in the North West.
Tim was educated at Taunton School and St Chad's College, Durham University. His journalism career began in the newspaper industry in Fleet Street in 1993.
In the late-1990s, he was a presenter on the 'ITN Morning News'. He also presented weekend bulletins on ITV. He also made regular appearances as a presenter on the ITV News Channel until 2005.
In 2005, he joined the BBC as a presenter on BBC News 24. He also occasionally presents on BBC World.
Other TV projects: 'Paul Burrell - The Butler's Story' (Five); 'Di's Guys' (Channel 4); 'The Spencers' (Channel 4); 'After Diana - Remaking The Royals' (Five); 'Diana: Her Life' (ITV).
He has also had cameo acting roles in 'Sex Traffic' (Channel 4); 'State Of Play' (BBC); 'Jonathan Creek' (BBC); '102 Dalmations' (Disney); 'Clueless' (Paramount).
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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Bob is a former Arsenal (1963 - 1974) and Scotland goalkeeper. He also coached later generations of goalkeepers until he retired from football in 2001.
After his playing career, Wilson made appearances as a BBC TV football pundit in the early-1970s before joining the BBC in 1974 appearing regularly on 'Football Focus' (1974 - 1988 and 1992 - 1994), 'Match Of The Day', 'Grandstand' (1990 - 1992) and 'Sportsnight'.
In 1994, he moved to ITV to front its coverage of Champions League games, although he was later sidelined by new signings Des Lynam (1999) and Gabby Logan.
He presented some World Cup games for ITV 1 and ITV 2, regional highlights on Carlton in London, and pay-per-view Premiership games for the now-defunct ITV Sport Channel, before retiring in 2002.
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Joined ITN in 1996 from Yorkshire Television where she worked as a senior reporter and as a presenter on Yorkshire's regional 'Calendar' news programme. Later health correspondent in 1998 and currently a news correspondent for ITV news. Also presents ITV summaries, weekend news. She also presented on the ITV News Channel. Regular correspondent for ITV's award winning current affairs programme 'Tonight With Trevor McDonald'.Kirsty's started in broadcasting as a news reader on BBC Radio Scotland in 1989; she also presented the drivetime show. She moved to STV in 1992, where she became a regular presenter on the lunchtime and early evening editions of 'Scotland Today'. From 1994 - 1995 she hosted a live topical discussion programme for STV - 'Kirsty'.
In 1997 she moved to '5 News' where she was the anchor of the channel's main early evening news programme. In 1999 she took up a presenting role on ITN's ITV news programmes. In January 2002 she returned to '5 News'.
