Tim Backshall (television presenter)
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Timothy “Tim” Backshall is an English television presenter and journalist, currently employed by ITV Channel.
Biography
Backshall was originally from Harrogate, North Yorkshire. He then lived near Penrith, Cumbria, with his wife and daughter.[http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=121537661234317&set=a.121537521234331.23207.119570041431079&ref=fbx_album ITV Border's Photos - Meet the team.] Facebook, 28 September 2010 He is now in Jersey in the Channel Islands.
Television
He joined ITV Border in 1997 as a co-presenter of Lookaround. In February 2009 he was redeployed as a correspondent, based in Carlisle, as part of the newly formed ITV Tyne Tees & Border news service.[http://www.newsandstar.co.uk/news/1.374377 Presenters Armstrong, Pearson and Backshall survive Border TV axe] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091109033535/http://www.newsandstar.co.uk/news/1.374377 |date=2009-11-09 }}, News & Star, 13 January 2009 He transferred to ITV News in the Channel Islands in 2023.
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External links
- [http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=121537661234317&set=a.121537521234331.23207.119570041431079&ref=fbx_album ITV Border's Photos - Meet the team] on Facebook
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Category:English television personalities
Category:ITV regional newsreaders and journalists