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He first appeared on the DEF II programme Reportage in 1989, then presented the BBC's children's news programme, Newsround, from 1991 to 1994, and was the first presenter of the BBC's then-new rolling news channel, News 24, in the midday-to-16:00 slot.

He has appeared as a guest on the television comedy news show Have I Got News For You and its radio equivalent The News Quiz, and has had cameo appearances in several productions, including regular ones Bremner, Bird and Fortune and the film Shaun of the Dead. He also hosted the Channel 4 quiz show, Number One.

Originally from BurnleyBurnley is a town in Lancashire in north-west England with a population of around 74,000. The surrounding borough of Burnley has a population of around 90,000. Burnley grew up as an industrial town in the 19th century, with its economy being based upon th in LancashireLancashire (archaically, the County of Lancaster is a county palatine of England, lying on the Irish Sea. Its name is sometimes abbreviated to Lancs . Its traditional county town was Lancaster, but the county council is now based in Preston. The county bo, Guru-Murthy read PPEPhilosophy, Politics and Economics ( PPE ) is a degree programme taken by many who seek a career in politics or public life and quite a few who subsequently achieve it. Though nowadays available at many UK universities, it is usually associated with the U at Oxford, and now lives in west LondonLondon is the capital of the United Kingdom and of England, and with over seven million inhabitants in the Greater London area, is the second-most populous conurbation in Europe (after Moscow). From being Londinium the capital of the Roman province of Bri.