- Fiona Armstrong
Fiona Armstrong (born
November 28th ,1956 ) (Sagittarius) is a British newsreader who was born in West Cumbria. She was the female anchor on ITV Border's Lookaround - the company's flagship evening news programme - for many years, but now only anchors on Fridays. She was replaced Monday-Thursdays by Kate Fisher in 2008.Fiona joined
Border Television (now ITV Border since 2004) in 1983 as a reporter, before becoming a regular newsreader. Then in 1987, she switched toITN as a presenter on "News at Ten ", (later ) and other bulletins, including a brief stint on Channel 4 News. In 1993, she was one of the launch team on the ITV 1 breakfast stationGMTV , but left after only a few months.She later rejoined ITV Border - based in Carlisle, England - and became the female anchor of
Lookaround , as well as a presenter/producer on a number of regional programmes for Border Television, such as "River Journeys ".
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