Christopher George Vacher (born 3 December 1951) is a British television presenter, best known as a long-serving main anchor of
BBC West's flagship regional news programme ''
Points West'' for 28 years.
Early life
Brought up near
Axminster on the
Somerset-
Devon border, Vacher attended
Sherborne School and the
Britannia Royal Naval College,
Dartmouth Dartmouth may refer to:
Places
* Dartmouth, Devon, England
** Dartmouth Harbour
* Dartmouth, Massachusetts, United States
* Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada
* Dartmouth, Victoria, Australia
Institutions
* Dartmouth College, Ivy League university i ...
(in the same year as
Prince Charles
Charles III (Charles Philip Arthur George; born 14 November 1948) is King of the United Kingdom and the 14 other Commonwealth realms. He was the longest-serving heir apparent and Prince of Wales and, at age 73, became the oldest person to ...
) before joining the
Royal Navy in 1969 as a seaman officer.
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Broadcasting career
Vacher joined the BBC in 1981 working for Radio Bristol
BBC Radio Bristol is the BBC's local radio station serving Bristol, Bath and North & North East Somerset.
It broadcasts on FM, DAB, digital TV and via BBC Sounds from studios at Broadcasting House in Bristol.
According to RAJAR, the stat ...
before becoming a freelance reporter and newsreader for ''Points West'' a year later.Royal Television Society
The Royal Television Society (RTS) is a British-based educational charity for the discussion, and analysis of television in all its forms, past, present, and future. It is the oldest television society in the world. It currently has fourteen r ...
's 'Regional TV Personality of the Year in the West' award,[ has also worked on various documentary specials as part of the regional current affairs series ''Close Up West''.][
Vacher presented ''Points West'' for the final time on Friday 9 December 2011. Vacher was then the longest-serving regional presenter who had worked for the BBC.]
Private life
Vacher is married and has two sons from his first marriage to Tilly.
References
External links
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Living people
BBC newsreaders and journalists
English television presenters
1951 births