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BBC presenter and children’s author Nick Sheridan has died aged 32 following a short illness. The news was announced by the broadcaster in a post on X/Twitter on Thursday morning (7 March).
Christa Ackroyd – main presenter on Look North from 2001 until 2013. She had previously been a presenter on Yorkshire Television's Calendar during the 1990s.; Kate Adie – chief news correspondent for BBC News during which time she became well known for reporting from war zones around the world – her first major assignment was reporting on the Iranian embassy siege in London in 1980.
In 2011, BBC journalist Justin Webb revealed that Peter Woods was his natural father. Woods had an affair with Webb's mother who was a secretary at the Daily Mirror when Woods was a star reporter. Woods though was already married and Webb's mother was separated from her first husband. [ 2 ]
In December 2007, he became the sole presenter of the Six O'Clock News. In 2006, he began presenting World News Today on BBC World News and BBC Two, which was rebranded GMT on 1 February 2010. He last appeared on the programme in 2014. [14] He was formerly a relief presenter on BBC News at Ten, presenting mainly Monday to Thursday when main ...
Day joined BBC Radio News in 1974 in London, working on the business news in 1975. In 1983, he left the BBC to join TV-am as their economics and industrial correspondent, appearing as a reporter on the first day of broadcast - 1 February 1983. Day returned to the BBC to become a presenter and producer for the Financial World Tonight, which ...
Young co-presented the Midday News programme on LBC Newstalk 97.3 FM on London's news station, alongside Brian Widlake. He also worked on BBC Radio 4 hosting the panel game Who Goes There?, [8] guested on the first three series of Have I Got News for You, and was later a media trainer. Young died from liver cancer on 10 May 2024, at the age of ...
Hanrahan died of bowel cancer on 20 December 2010, aged 61. [5] [1]Martin Bell wrote of him in an obituary published in The Guardian: "In the world of television news, where inflated egos are not unknown, Brian Hanrahan stood out for his modesty as well as his way with words."
He became a reporter for Liquid News in September 2001, becoming a presenter in 2002, replacing 34-year-old Christopher Price who died of meningoencephalitis. He is a stand-in presenter on BBC Radio 5 Live, having covered for Richard Bacon, Tony Livesey and Simon Mayo. He is the main BBC Radio correspondent for the Oscars and Glastonbury.