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Lucy's journalistic career began as a reporter with BBC local radio - BBC Radio Solent, BBC Radio Hereford and Worcester and BBC Greater London Radio. Her first TV job was with Anglia TV as producer. She soon moved on to reporting and presenting on 'Anglia News'.
She soon became a regular face on the ITV London regional news programme 'London Today' and was soon co-anchoring the early evening 'London Tonight' with Alastair Stewart.
Lucy later co-anchored the breakfast programme on the ITV News Channel with Andrew Harvey. In 2006, she joined Sky News.
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Anna-Maria Ashe was a continuity announcer at BBC Scotland, TVS and Grampian Television in the mid-1980s. She also presented lunchtime news bulletins in-vision during her time with BBC Scotland (1986). She later moved to the TVS nightly news magazine 'Coast To Coast' where she did a stint at presenting/news reading for the Southampton edition, before moving to the Maidstone programme.
Anna-Maria was replaced at Maidstone by Liz Wickham when she moved to LWT as the main anchor of 'LWT News' and 'LWT News Weekend'. She was one of the main presenters on the 'London Tonight' programme on ITV 1 until February 2004.
Michael Aspel started his career as a BBC TV out-of-vision continuity announcer, from 1957 until 1960, and then news reader, from October 1960 until June 1968. He later moved to presenting children’s programmes including 'Crackerjack' and 'Ask Aspel'.
He later joined LWT as the main anchor of regional show 'The 6 O'Clock Show' from 1982 to 1988 and was a guest presenter on LWT's 'Six O'Clock Live' in 1990 and 1991. He also presented the LWT networked chat show 'Aspel And Company' from 1984 to 1993 and hosted Thames TV's 'Give Us A Clue', TVS' 'Ultra Quiz' in 1983 and the BBC TV versions of 'Blockbusters' in 1987 and 'This Is Your Life' in the 1990s.
He now presents 'The Antiques Roadshow' on the BBC.
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Graham was an announcer with BSB in 1990 and later Carlton in London. He was the senior continuity announcer when national ITV 1 continuity was introduced from October 28 2002.
In addition to continuity announcing, Graham has worked as a presenter and voice-over artist; his clients include BBC TV, Ford Motor Company, Royal and SunAlliance and Braun. He has fronted travel bulletins for Carlton and LWT and presented shows on Essex local radio.
From his studio he voices commercials, promotions and imaging for stations in the UK, America, Spain, Dubai and Malta. For more information, visit Graham's website (link below).
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Faye's first broadcasting job was with EBN (now CNBC) in late-1996. She later presented for '5 News' (also carried out a reporting role there), ITV Yorkshire, the ITV News Channel. GMTV and ITV London.
Other TV projects: 'Package Holiday Undercover' (ITV 1); 'St Jimmy's' (ITV 1).
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.
Ashley started out as an entertainment reporter on a local cable TV station in Birmingham. He was a reporter on Live TV in Liverpool before moving to its sister station in Birmingham.
Ashley then headed off to London where he was a reporter and presenter with 'London Today'/'London Tonight'.
He later moved across to the BBC, where he reported for 'Breakfast News'.
Ashley is now entertainment reporter with BBC 'Midlands Today'; he also occasionally presents the programme.
Other TV credits: 'Dream Ticket' (LWT); 'Inside Out' (BBC); 'Watchdog' (BBC).
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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In the early days of her television career, Lynda spent a brief period as a television announcer with BBC Northern Ireland - c. late-1980s. She went on to become one of the regular presenters of the BBC's local news programme in Northern Ireland, 'Inside Ulster'.
She later appeared on national screens, presenting alongside Rolf Harris on 'Animal Hospital' in 1996 and also filing reports for the 'Holiday' programme.
In 1996, Lynda defected to UTV, where she co-presented the main news programme with husband Mike Nesbitt until February 2006, when Mike left the station. Lynda still co-presents the programme.
In 2004, Lynda was an occasional presenter on the ITV News Channel; she also presented on ITV 1's 'London Tonight'. From November 2005 to 2008, Lynda presented her own show on Belfast radio station, U105.8.
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Anchor of 'LWT News' in the late-1980s. Lindsay went on to work for London News Network as a news reader, correspondent and relief presenter (1993 to 1995 and 1998/1999) before becoming managing director of London Weekend Television. He had since moved on and is now managing director at Meridian Broadcasting.Nick's journalistic life started in the newspaper industry, first with the Sydney Daily Mirror and then back in the UK with the Sunday Telegraph. He continues to write articles for various publications today.
Nick's TV work includes spells as a presenter on London News Network's 'London Tonight' in 1994 and 1995 and a sports presenter and relief main presenter in 1995 to 1996. He presented with the programme again between c. 2002 and 2004.
He has also presented many factual series for various TV channels, including an hour long documentary on global warming for the Discovery Channel and the ratings winning 'Sea To Source', following his journey up the River Thames. He has also covered rugby and football world cups with ITV.
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.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.
ATV reporter and news reader who moved across to Central in 1982 to co-host with Nick Owen the East Midlands edition of Central News . It was a double act that was to stand both of them in good stead when they were later re-united on the TV-am sofa as the main presenters of 'Good Morning Britain' in late-1983. Before joining the breakfast station, Anne briefly became a national news reader for BBC Television's 'News Afternoon' in May 1983. She was a guest presenter on LWT's 'Six O'Clock Live' in 1990 and 1991.
Anne teamed up with Nick Owen again to host ITV's 'This Morning', standing in for Richard and Judy and then landed a similar programme 'Good Morning With Anne And Nick' which ran on BBC One from 1992 until 1996.
Anne's other national jobs included TV Weekly for TVS and a relief presenter on ITV's 'The Time The Place' in 1993.
Married Mike Hollingsworth, her former boss at ATV and Central, and later colleague at TV-am, but the couple later separated in a well publicised split.
Anne worked at London's LBC radio where she co-hosted the breakfast show with Tommy Boyd. She is also well known for her work publicising cot death syndrome.
In 2002, Anne appeared on Channel 4's 'Celebrity Big Brother' as one of the housemates. She seemed to take the challenge in good spirit. She was evicted after being put up for nomination with comedienne Sue Perkins, but lost by only a tiny margin.
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One of a team of journalists/news readers who appeared on 'LWT News' in the late-1980s as the station tried to improve its local news output.Main anchor of London News Network's 'London Tonight', from Mondays to Thursdays, in the early and mid-1990s.
(OBE). Sir David first appeared on Anglia TV in the early-1960s and was chosen to host the pioneering BBC TV satirical programme, 'That Was The Week That Was' (1962 - 1963). He later presented 'The Frost Report' (1966 - 1967) and 'The Frost Programme' at LWT. He was also a member of the team that won the London weekend franchise for LWT.
His career took on a transatlantic dimension in the late-1960s and 1970s, when he presented programmes in both America and London.
One of the more memorable moments from his career was his 1977 interview with the disgraced American President Richard Nixon.
In 1982 he successfully helped win the first ITV breakfast franchise for TV-am which he helped launch in February 1983. He presented 'Frost On Sunday' at the station from 1984 - 1992.
Sir David returned to BBC TV to present a Sunday morning interview programme 'Breakfast With Frost' from 1993 - 2005.
He is the only person to have interviewed all of the past six British Prime Ministers and the past seven US Presidents.
For many years he also hosted the panel game 'Through The Keyhole', first for ITV then BBC TV.
He owns his own production company, Paradine Productions and in 2005 received the BAFTA Fellowship. In October 2005, he announced that he would join Al-Jazeera International as a presenter from its launch.
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Presenter of LWT's weekly Sunday news review programme 'The Week', and news reader/reporter for LWT and Carlton London.
(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.
Reporter/news reader and relief presenter for 'Thames News' from the mid-1980s. Paul joined LNN (news provider to Carlton London and LWT) at its launch in 1993 as its main news reader on local news bulletins. Paul is still with the ITV London news programme.
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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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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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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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Natasha has an Oxford degree in English and after leaving university worked as part of Neil Kinnock's advisory team. She joined Meridian TV in 1997 and after a spell reading the breakfast bulletins for the South East, rapidly moved to a main presenter's role on 'Meridian Tonight', the station's evening news programme from Southampton.
In 1999 she joined LNN to present 'London Tonight' alongside Alastair Stewart. She also presented the daytime version of the programme 'London Today' as well as LWT's live Sunday morning current affairs programme 'Seven Days'.
In 2000, Natasha moved to Sky to host 'Live At Five' for Sky News. The BBC was the next stop in 2002, where she replaced Sophie Raworth on 'Breakfast'.
In 2004, Natasha took part in the BBC 'Strictly Come Dancing' programme. She and dancing partner Brendan Cole went on to win the competition. She co-hosted the second series of the programme with Bruce Forsyth.
March 2005 and Natasha is named Newcaster Of The Year at the TRIC awards (Television and Radio Industry). In August 2005 she married investment banker Justin Bower.
Natasha moved to the BBC 'Six O'Clock News' in Autumn 2005 replacing Sophie Raworth who had gone on maternity leave. In spring 2006, Natasha was confirmed as a permanent presenter on the programme, following the announcement that Sophie Raworth was to move to the 'One O'Clock News' on her return from maternity leave, taking over from Anna Ford who retired from news presenting in April 2006.
During the 1970s and 1980s, Allan was one of the main news readers on Independent Radio News; he also presented a range of programmes on LBC radio. In 1990, he joined BSB as a news presenter.
Following the closure of the BSB channels, Allan moved on and was appointed head of news at London radio station Melody FM in 1991.
He has also presented on 'The Channel 4 Daily' and for London Weekend Television.
In 1993, he moved to Sky News as a presenter. Allan is still with the channel and is one of their main presenters.
Allan is the managing director of Group K Broadcasting Ltd (link below), a consultancy specialising in media training.
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Mike started his career as a sports reporter with Mercia Sound in Coventry. In 1987 he moved to the BBC where he worked as a sports reporter and presenter for BBC 'Look East'.
By the mid-1990s he had moved to LNN's 'London Tonight'.
He subsequently rejoined the BBC 'Look East' team where he is now a senior broadcast journalist,
Mike also presents Sunday morning breakfast on BBC Radio Norfolk.
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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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Main sports presenter of London News Network's 'London Tonight' until he moved to national news operator ITN.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.
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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ATV sports presenter who was the first anchor for 'Central News' in the East Midlands. He joined TV-am's sports department in 1983, but was soon promoted to the main presenter of 'Good Morning Britain' when the 'famous five' presenter owners of the station were culled, or jumped ship, in a bitter boardroom battle early in the station's tumultuous history. Nick was soon joined on the couch by former Midlands colleague Anne Diamond, and together the two gelled, helping to transform the fortunes of the troubled breakfast contractor.
The pair later went on to their own daytime BBC show, 'Good Morning With Anne And Nick' but the programme was axed after a couple of seasons because it failed to dent the ratings of ITV's 'This Morning'. After a short spell fronting LWT's '6 O'Clock Live', Nick is now back in the Midlands, anchoring 'Midlands Today'.
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Presenter of 'Thames News' daytime bulletins (1986 - 1988) and then a reporter on 'Reporting London' 1988 - 1989 and 'Thames Reports' from 1989. He joined London News Network, providing news to Carlton and LWT, from 1993.Gregarious Westward Television reporter and presenter in the 1960s and 1970s who has made a westcountry comeback with current frachise incumbents, Carlton Television. Andy could often be found on the 'and finally' beat, covering unusual, quirky, amusing and often politically incorrect stories for 'Westward Diary'. For a while, Andy could be seen on our screens 'up country' as one of the roving reporter/presenters for LWT's light-hearted Friday night news magazine programme 'The Six O'Clock Show'.ITV national weather presenter who also presents forecasts for ITV London. 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.
Continuity announcer for Central TV in the mid-1980s who moved to London Weekend Television to front its 'LWT News' bulletins at the end of the decade. Pam then transferred to Tyne Tees Television to co-anchor 'Northern Life' with Paul Frost. She stayed as main co-anchor on the various incarnations of the programme since then, including 'Tyne Tees Today', 'Tyne Tees News' and, currently, 'North East Tonight'.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'.London News Network sports presenter, news reader and relief presenter, 1996 - 1997 and 1999 - 2000.
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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Matt Teale is an award-winning journalist with a background in news reporting and documentary making. He's worked as a presenter for Setanta Sports News and ITV Central in the Midlands, during which time he won a coveted RTS Sports award.
Matt is currently a presenter on ITV London's regional news programme 'London Tonight'.
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.
Main presenter of 'Coast To Coast' (South East edition) with Mike Debens from the mid-1980s until the end of 1992. Liz later worked on 'London Tonight' along with former TVS colleagues Christopher Peacock and Anna-Maria Ashe.Presenter of 'London Tonight' on Carlton and LWT, as well as London Weekend Television's 'Goals Extra' football programme.
