Anne Christina Davies DL is a British television presenter and newsreader, currently solo presenting ''

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Television and radio

Davies began work for BBC Current Affairs, working behind the scenes on ''

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'', ''

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'' and '' The Money Programme''. She moved to

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and

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. Then, after training for a year on the

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Trainee Scheme, Anne became the regular newsreader for '' Central News East'' based in

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. In 1993, she fronted the ITV Daytime Programme ''Look Good Feel Great'' with

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, the environmental series ''Earthdwellers Guide'', and produced and presented fashion shows for the ITV network entitled ''Off The Peg''. Anne then moved to ''

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'', presenting the first breakfast programme with

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. By April she was presenting ''Sunday Best'' with Mike Morris. She left this show by January 1994. Between 1994 and 1998 she read the news for the News Hour, presented her own Cookery strand and the GMTV House, provided cover for

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, and fronted ''Sunday Review''.

Outside television

Davies has written numerous articles for national magazines including '' Woman's Weekly'', ''

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'' and ''Babycare & Pregnancy''. In 1999 and 1991, she appeared at the

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in two special celebrity pantomimes for the Duchess of York's charity. She is the voice of the on-board bus announcements for

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's Indigo service. She recorded her voice for the service in 2008.

References

External links

Anne Davies TV

East Midlands Today

Profile, indicating birth in March 1958
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