Louise Elliott (born 1969, in

Ashington Ashington is a town and civil parish in Northumberland, England, with a population of 27,864 at the 2011 Census. It was once a centre of the coal mining industry. The town is north of Newcastle upon Tyne, west of the A189 and bordered to the ...

) is a Welsh broadcaster and journalist.

Biography

Born in

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, her father Dave Elliott was a professional

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player at

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and

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. At the age of five, her family moved to Wales - she was brought up at

Llandegfan Llandegfan (; ; meaning ''The Church of St Tegfan'') is a village on the east of island of Anglesey in Wales. It is part of the community (Wales), community of Cwm Cadnant.Davies (2008) p.180 Population is around 1,580. History and description ...

near

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Anglesey Anglesey ( ; ) is an island off the north-west coast of Wales. It forms the bulk of the Principal areas of Wales, county known as the Isle of Anglesey, which also includes Holy Island, Anglesey, Holy Island () and some islets and Skerry, sker ...

Newspapers

After competing her

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, Elliott joined the

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in Bangor as a trainee reporter. She then worked on local newspapers in

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and

Rhyl Rhyl (; , ) is a seaside town and community in Denbighshire in Wales. The town lies on the coast of North Wales, at the mouth of the River Clwyd. To the west is Kinmel Bay and Towyn, to the east Prestatyn, and to the south-east Rhuddlan ...

, before moving to the

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, where she covered the

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. Four years later, she became education correspondent for the Preston-based

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. After a year, Elliott joined the Daily Post, where, for reports including one from

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with the

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on the Mostar massacre, she twice won the regional Young Journalist of the Year award. She then became news editor of three editions of the Daily Post, becoming at the age of 26, one of the youngest news editors in regional newspapers.

Broadcasting

Elliott then took a job with

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as a North Wales correspondent for ''

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'', based at the station's Colwyn Bay newsroom. She then moved to

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' Bangor newsroom as a North Wales reporter, before relocating to

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to become education correspondent. As part of her BBC training, she also reported for

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and later the

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, as both a regional and special UK correspondent. She later became the presenter of BBC Wales' flagship current affairs series ''Week In, Week Out'' and the consumer affairs programme ''

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''. Elliott later switched to radio, joining Jamie Owen in 2007 as host of a weekday morning show on BBC Radio Wales. On 24 September 2012, she became the host of the station's weekday afternoon show, replacing

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, but quit just over a year later in order to pursue writing ambitions. She returned to BBC Radio Wales in February 2015 as the new main presenter of the flagship breakfast news programme, ''Good Morning Wales'', alongside Oliver Hides.Louise Elliott returns to BBC Wales
bbc.co.uk, November 2014 Elliott left the programme ten months later.

References

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