Annabel Tiffin is an English broadcast journalist and presenter, currently working as a main presenter and producer for the

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regional television news programme ''

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''. Tiffin presents the main 6:30pm programme, alternating with Roger Johnson, as well as weekday late news bulletins and the North West edition of the weekly political programme '' Sunday Politics''.

Early life

Tiffin was born in

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, but went to school in

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and then London. She moved to

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during her year off, but immediately found employment with a newspaper in

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and so decided not to go to university. Her father was Peter Tiffin, a

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and producer for over 30 years. She has two sisters.

Career

Tiffin moved to Manchester in 1990, and began working at the ''Stockport Express Advertiser''. She then moved into local radio, working for Signal Radio in

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and

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, before becoming a presenter and reporter for the local

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station, Birmingham Live TV, on which Tiffin was the first person on air in 1995. After 18 months, she moved to Central Television in

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and became a reporter and bulletin presenter for '' Central News East''. Tiffin joined

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in 2003 as a presenter and producer for the late ''North West Tonight'' bulletin on weekdays. She later became a regular stand-in anchor on the main evening programme, before becoming a main anchor in May 2012 to replace

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. Alongside regional news, she has also worked on regional current affairs series '' Inside Out North West'' and ''

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'' as well as coverage of local and general elections. In July 2020, the BBC announced that 450 jobs would be lost in English regional television, as well as current affairs, local radio and online news. More than a thousand people signed a petition to save the long-standing partnership between Tiffin and Roger Johnson. However, the pairing, as joint anchors for ''North West Tonight'', came to an end, with both presenting separately since then. Tiffin started her second stint presenting ''Politics North West'' on 16 May 2021. Tiffin received an honorary

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degree from the

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for her outstanding contribution to broadcasting in 2022.

Awards

Tiffin has presented award-winning programmes on subjects as wide-ranging as Hillsborough, the

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trial and the

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. She has been nominated for two

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s and has also won numerous

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awards.

Personal life

Tiffin lives in

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, with her husband and two children.

References

External links

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''BBC North West Tonight'' – Annabel Tiffin profile

''BBC Politics Show: North West'' – about the programme
published 11 September 2005 {{DEFAULTSORT:Tiffin, Annabel Living people BBC newsreaders and journalists BBC North West newsreaders and journalists People from Cheadle Hulme People from Cirencester People from Southampton Year of birth missing (living people)