Scottish
Scottish usually refers to something of, from, or related to Scotland, including:
*Scottish Gaelic, a Celtic Goidelic language of the Indo-European language family native to Scotland
*Scottish English
*Scottish national identity, the Scottish ide ...
television presenter
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, who has appeared on
ITV News
ITV News is the branding of news programmes on the British news television channel of ITV (TV network), ITV. ITV has a long tradition of television news. ITN, Independent Television News (ITN) was founded to provide news bulletins for the netwo ...
,
Sky Sports
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Shaw started her television career with STV's children's department. She also presented current affairs programmes ''Seven Days'' and ''Trial By Night'', travel show ''Scottish Passport'', and property programme '' Safe As Houses''.
In August 2009, she became the first female to anchor live coverage of the Scottish Premier League, on Sky Sports.
Shaw has presented on
Sky Sports News
Sky Sports News (SSN) is a British pay television, paid television sports news channel run by Sky Group, Sky, a division of Comcast.
History
Sky Sports first started broadcasting sports news bulletins when it began broadcasting the Premi ...
Setanta Sports News
Setanta Sports News was a television channel from Virgin Media Television and Setanta Sports. The channel launched on 29 November 2007.
, as well as hosting
basketball
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on
Setanta Sports
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.Ali Douglas MUTV She has also had stints presenting on
Rangers TV
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H ...
,
Arsenal TV
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angling
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event.
In October 2010, she presented her first national news, '' ITV News at 5:30''. On 27 July 2012 she presented the news on '' Daybreak'', ITV's former breakfast programme.
Shaw currently presents ''Countdown to Kick off'' on
Manchester United
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Shaw had been a columnist for newspapers, including the
Evening Times
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Sunday Post
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. She also wrote a
blog
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on
Scottish football
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for the
Sky Sports
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website.
On 14 March 2018, Shaw's book ''Beautiful Chaos: A Life Worth Living with Bipolar'' was released; a frank account of her past, including taking drugs, binge drinking, depression and being diagnosed with bipolar.
Acting
In her early career, Shaw had lead roles appeared in several Scottish
pantomimes
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horse rider
The horse (''Equus ferus caballus'') is a domesticated, one-toed, hoofed mammal. It belongs to the taxonomic family Equidae and is one of two extant subspecies of ''Equus ferus''. The horse has evolved over the past 45 to 55 million ...