Angela Rippon

Angela Rippon can be seen on the ITV News Channel every weekend morning from 8am. In 2003 she was one of the anchors of the ITV News Channel's coverage of the war in Iraq.

Angela Rippon is one of the best-known faces and voices in British broadcasting. Since her very first television broadcast for BBC Plymouth in 1966, the career of this award-winning journalist has embraced an impressive variety of programmes on both radio and television, for both commercial and BBC stations in Britain and America.

Trained as a journalist in her home town of Plymouth, Angela worked at both the BBC in Plymouth and Westward Television before joining BBC national television in 1973 as the first woman journalist newsreader in 1975. Angela was a founder member of the commercial breakfast service TV-am in 1982 and in 1984 moved to America to work for Boston based CBS affiliated Channel 7. On returning to Britain, Angela worked on a variety of programmes for BBC and ITV before joining LBC Radio in 1990. After a spell away, Angela re-joined the newly relaunced LBC 97.3 in January 2003.

She has many television, radio and publication credits to her name as well as a range of highly impressive awards.