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Marie Ashby
Marie was born in Edinburgh and raised in Carlisle.

Having obtained a degree in French, she then went on to study a one-year post-graduate course in radio journalism. Her career began in radio, where she worked as a district reporter for BBC Radio Cumbria in Barrow, Furness, covering the South Lakes.

Six months later, she moved to BBC Radio Nottingham, taking up a reporting job. Then, in 1989, while on placement to 'Midlands Today', Marie moved to Central TV, where she spent sixteen years, as a reporter and presenter; in fact, she soon became one of the main anchors on the main evening regional news programme there. During her time with ITV, Marie presented many programmes, covering political and social issues.

In September 2005, she returned to the BBC in Nottingham, co-presenting 'East Midlands Today' on Fridays. She also presents the local segments on 'The Politics Show' and from January 2006, 'Inside Out'.

Marie also has a weekly column in the Nottingham Evening Post.

Ian Bolton
Ian is a presenter on Sky Sports. Previously, he presented on 'East Midlands Today',

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Sally Bowman
Sally is a reporter/presenter on BBC 'East Midlands Today'. Previously, Sally worked as a presenter/reporter for 'Lookaround' (ITV Border) and 'Central News' (ITV Central).

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Jon Brain
Jon is a former 'East Midlands Today' presenter. By the early-2000s, he was reporting for BBC national news.

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Lukwesa Burak
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.

Martine Croxall
Martine's broadcasting career began at BBC Radio Leicester in 1991. She worked behind-the-scenes initially but soon took on a presenting/reporting role.
Regional television news was next - first with 'East Midlands Today' and later 'Newsroom South East' in 1997.

In 2000, she switched to national TV, presenting 'UK Today' initially and then overnight shifts presenting on BBC News 24, which were simulcast on BBC World and BBC One.

Anne Davies
Before moving to national fame with GMTV in the 1990s, Ann Davis could be found manning the newsdesk at 'Central News' in the East Midlands.

Anne has returned to the Midlands where she can now be found co-hosting the BBC's 'East Midlands Today'.

Shiulie Gosh
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 (credited as Shreela Ghosh) to 'Newsroom South East' as a reporter/presenter.

She joined ITN as a reporter in January 1998 and since then has covered major events both at home and abroad. Later. she became ITN's home affairs editor working on its news service for ITV.

Shiulie presents ITV News programmes on an occasional basis.

Dominic Heale
Ably manned the 'TSW Today' newsdesk right up until the very last programme on 31 December 1992. He then moved to present 'Central News' (East) from Nottingham. Recently, he switched sides to front the BBC's 'East Midlands Today'.

Carol Hinds
Carol's first broadcasting experience was as a volunteer with a local hospital radio station in London.

Carol is now a news reader with BBC 'East Midlands Today'.

Priya Kaur-Jones
Priya's first broadcasting job was as a reporter and news reader with Lincs FM. Six months later she moved to the BBC Asian Network in 2002 where she was the East Midlands reporter. She later became a regular presenter of BBC 'East Midlands Today' before moving to 'Five News' as a presenter in December 2005.

Lynette Lithgoe
Lynette Lithgow started her television career as an in-vision announcer at Granada Television. She then moved to the BBC in the East Midlands as a presenter in 1989 and became a national BBC TV news reader from February 1990 to October 1991, mostly on weekend bulletins and for BBC Two's 'News View'. She also presented the charity appeal programme 'Lifeline' in the late-1980s. She left to join BBC World as a news reader in 1991.

Lynette left journalism to take up an academic career and after completing a law degree at Oxford, she went on to take up a fellowship post at Harvard.

Lynette was murdered in Port of Spain, Trinidad, in December 2001.
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Angela Rafferty
Angela went to journalism college and spent the early days of her working life in the newspaper industry. She then moved into broadcasting, working initially as a reporter. She later joined the sports desk at the BBC's 'East Midlands Today' and is currently the regular sports presenter on the programme.

Julie Reinger
Julie studied broadcast journalism at Nottingham Trent University. Her first broadcast job was as broadcast assistant at BBC Radio Nottingham in 1992.

In 1997 she moved to television and the BBC 'East Midlands Today' office, working as a picture editor and planner. Whilst there, she also stood in as the 'East Midlands Today' weather presenter.

In February 1999, Julie joined BBC 'Look East' in Norwich where she presents lunchtime and evening weather forecasts. She also presents weather bulletins for a number of BBC local radio stations in the area.

Kathy Rochford
Kathy started off with BBC Midlands as a presenter on 'Midlands Today' in the early-1980s. She joined TV-am in the late-1980s.

By the early-1990s she was back with the BBC, presenting 'East Midlands Today'.

Angelina Socci
Angelina has a degree in English and a post-graduate diploma in broadcast journalism. In the leadup to her diploma, Angelina had periods of work experience at the BBC's Pebble Mill studios in Birmingham. However, her broadcasting career started proper when she joined BBC WM radio as a journalist; she was a reporter and also read news bulletins.

In 2005, following a short stint with BBC 'Midlands Today', Angelina worked as a freelance journalist for various TV and radio outlets.

In December 2005, she started with BBC East Midlands. She is currently a presenter (breakfast bulletins mainly) and reporter on 'East Midlands Today'.

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