Timothy Backshall is an English television presenter and journalist, currently employed by ITV Tyne Tees & Border.Presenters Armstrong, Pearson and Backshall survive Border TV axe
, ''News & Star'', 13 January 2009

Biography

Backshall was originally from

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. He now lives near Penrith,

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, with his wife and daughter.ITV Border's Photos - Meet the team.

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, 28 September 2010

Television

He joined

ITV Border ITV Border, previously Border Television and commonly referred to as simply Border, is the Channel 3 service provided by ITV Broadcasting Limited for the England/Scotland border region, covering most of Cumbria, Dumfries and Galloway, the S ...

in 1997 as a co-presenter of '' Lookaround''. In February 2009 he was redeployed as a correspondent, based in

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, as part of the newly formed ITV Tyne Tees & Border news service.

References

External links

ITV Border's Photos - Meet the team
on

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