Mehrwan F. Amroliwala was born in Leeds in 1962, the son of a Royal Air Force officer with roots in India as a Parsi Zoroastrian.
…Adams, Kaye
Kaye was a Central News reporter in the mid-1980s. She joined STV in the late-1980s as a reporter for Scotland Today. She was one of the first reporters on the scene at Lockerbie.
Kaye could also be seen presenting Scotland Today and also presented Scottish Women from the early to mid-1990s for STV.
Kaye was one of the regular faces of ITV daytime in the early 2000s – presenting Loose Women and Live Talk. She also stood in for Fern Britton on This Morning c. 2001.
Other TV/radio credits: The Home Show (STV); Choice Cuts (BBC Radio Scotland).
Anders, Ruth
Ruth was an LWT announcer/newsreader (1982 – 1994).
…Adie, Kate
Kate was born in Northumberland and adopted as a baby by a couple in Sunderland.
…Angwin, Richard
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.
Hill, Jane
Jane has been a presenter on the BBC News Channel (formerly BBC News 24) since its launch in November 1997. She currently presents the BBC News at Five and is a relief presenter on the BBC News at One.
Anthony, Patrick
Patrick was born in Dublin. With five years of theatre behind him, he began his broadcasting career at HTV Wales, as a newsreader and announcer, and became the first Irishman to read the Welsh news in English!
…Anderson, Andrew
Andrew Anderson worked for Grampian Television as a reporter and presenter of North Tonight from February 1988 until October 1992. He went on to work for Reuters Television as the first Scotland correspondent for the fledgling breakfast TV company GMTV. He’s now working for BBC Scotland news and current affairs.
Ahmad, Asad
Asad joined the BBC regional news trainee scheme in 1996. In 1997 he got his first TV job reporting and presenting with the BBC in Birmingham. He then moved to BBC Scotland where he was a reporter and presenter, working on programmes such as Newsnight Scotland, Reporting Scotland, and Newsline.
In 2000 he returned to London where he presented the news bulletins on Breakfast, sharing that role with Moira Stuart. He also popped up occasionally on BBC News 24.
In May 2002, he became a presenter/reporter with BBC London News.
Appleton, Trevor
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.
Ahmad, Tazeen
Tazeen graduated from university with a 2:1 in communication studies. She started off as a news assistant at ITN and later became involved in various projects for a number of radio stations. At BBC GLR, she presented a live one-hour arts and entertainment show. She presented a weekly three-hour show for BBC Thames Valley radio and later became involved with BBC Radio 5 Live, presenting and producing news, arts and entertainment features.
By the early 2000s, Tazeen was reporting for the BBC Choice entertainment magazine, Liquid News. In July 2001, she became one of the regular presenters of the new BBC Choice news programme, 60 Seconds. She continued to present the programme – and the new News Show – following the launch of BBC Three in February 2003.
Other TV projects: presenter/producer, East (BBC).
Ackroyd, Christa
Bradford-born Christa Ackroyd – one of the main presenters of Yorkshire Television’s Calendar for more than 10 years – left the station in 2001 to anchor the rival BBC Look North from Leeds from autumn that year. Christa had been with YTV since 1989.
She started her career in journalism with the Halifax Courier and then moved to radio – first with Pennine Radio and then with Radio Aire, where she became the UK’s first female radio news editor. While there she covered the Yorkshire Ripper case and supplied reports to national network radio.
Ahmed, Samira
Samira is a former BBC news trainee who went on to anchor news programmes on BBC News 24 and BBC World. She was also a reporter for Newsnight and BBC Radio 4’s Today programme.
She joined Channel 4 News in April 1999 as a general reporter. Samira is now one of the programme’s regular presenters.
Alford, Sally
Sally was born in Weston-super-Mare, in November 1940. She is a former actress, who went on to become an in-vision continuity announcer for TWW in the 1960s and its successor, HTV West (spring 1968 – c. 1985).
…Aitken, Helen
Helen was an announcer at Granada Media Group’s northern transmission centre in Leeds. She voiced announcements on Yorkshire, Tyne Tees, Granada and Border until October 2002.
…Andrew, Ken
Former Thames TV and BSB news presenter.
Alexander, Lucy
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 a producer. She soon moved on to reporting and presenting on Anglia News.
She later 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.
Aitken, Jonathan
Aitken brandished his ‘sword of truth’ as a news reporter and presenter on Calendar in the early 1970s before he won the Thanet East parliamentary constituency for the Conservative Party in 1974, and turned to a career in politics.
He was later a board director of TV-am during its troubled early life.
Akehurst, Keith
Keith was a news presenter with TVS. When Meridian took over the southern ITV franchise, he moved to BBC Look North at BBC North East in Newcastle.
Keith is currently a senior reporter for BBC Look North.
Alexander, Kay
Kay is a presenter on BBC Midlands Today and has been with the programme since 1974. She was one of the main presenters on the programme until the late-1990s. Kay now covers breakfast and lunchtime shifts mostly.
As a freelance, she also works on corporate videos and provides voiceovers.
Khan, Reham
Reham was a BBC TV/radio weather presenter (2008 – 2013).
…Alexander, Cathy
Former Central News (South) reporter and presenter. Cathy also presented the news on the now defunct satellite broadcaster BSB in 1990. She currently presents and reports for Meridian Tonight.
Haynes, Barri
Barri was born in Ventnor, Isle of Wight. After completing National Service with the Welsh Guards in London, he trained as a journalist with Kemsley newspapers and worked on The Western Mail in Cardiff.
…Houston, Robin
Well known Thames Television announcer and newsreader (late-1970s – 1992) and LWT continuity announcer. Robin was also a familiar voice to viewers across the ITV network, for his voiceovers at award ceremonies and the Royal Variety Show. Robin has also been heard as the voice of the questions on Channel 5’s 100%. He also presented the channel’s One to Win gameshow.
Docherty, Nicky
Nicky was a Scottish Television in-vision continuity announcer (1980s) who moved on to front news bulletins for the station. He was later part of Radio Clyde’s award-winning news team.
St John, Annie
Annie was a continuity announcer for Tyne Tees TV, HTV West and LWT (1984). She also presented several programmes for HTV, including co-anchoring the main nightly news programme with fellow presenters Bruce Hockin, Richard Wyatt and Alison Holloway.
…Gregory, Kenny
Kenny was an announcer at STV (November 1994 – December 1997). He was also an in-vision presenter on STV’s Wheel Nuts (series 1, 1997)
…Kennedy, Sarah
Sarah was an LWT announcer in the 1970s. She also worked as a reporter and newsreader for Southern TV in the 1970s. Sarah went on to become one of the presenters of the BBC’s Sixty Minutes news magazine, and, famously, LWT’s Game for a Laugh. Since then she has presented many television and radio programmes.
Hood, Morag
Morag was a presenter on STV children’s programme Roundup. She also spent a while as an announcer with STV before embarking on an acting career, which included the role of Natasha in the BBC’s lavish production of War and Peace. She had many TV and stage roles during her acting career.
Morag died in 2002.
Lewis, Peter
Osborn, Hilary
Born in Barnet, Hertfordshire, Osborn graduated with a BA Honours degree in French from Queen Mary College, London University.
…Kerr, Sue
Previously known as Sue Peacock. Sue was born in Welling, Kent. She was a drama tutor for the Women’s Institute and an announcer at LWT (1981 – 1987).
…Taylor, Alec
Alec was born in Dublin. He went to university in Dublin and worked as a publicity assistant for Oxam, then as a market researcher and teacher.
…Wheatley, Jonathan
Born in Hammersmith, London, Jonathan Wheatley has built a distinguished career spanning broadcasting, journalism, and presentation on both sides of the Atlantic.
…Rollings, Gordon
Former actor and TV presenter.
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