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Peter
Holland is one of the longest serving members of the North
West Tonight team having joined the programme in 1988.
Peter
first developed an interest in journalism as a teenager. "I
got a Saturday job in the editorial offices of the Lancashire
Evening Post in Preston...and yes I was the tea boy!"
Peter
Holland |
After
leaving Preston's Tuson College with A-levels, Peter attended
teacher training college in Poulton le Fylde. "Teaching
just wasn't going to be right for me so I applied to the local
newspaper where I'd worked on Saturdays - and blow me down,
they gave me a job!"
Peter
worked for the Lancashire Evening Post for five years during
which time he was a general news reporter and then the paper's
Health Correspondent. His next post was as a general news
reporter with the Liverpool Echo.
Lights,
camera.. action!
Broadcasting
seemed the next logical step. " I'd always been enchanted
by the newspaper industry but telly was just so much more
exciting. The lights, the cameras…the make-up!!! I just
knew I had to get a job in television."
After
working shifts at the BBC's offices in Oxford Road, Manchester,
Peter was appointed as a Regional Journalist in 1988.
On-screen
reporting quickly followed. Peter was a general news reporter,
our Regional Affairs Correspondent and, more recently, has
been responsible for covering Lancashire and South Cumbria.
Peter
was the first TV reporter at the scene of the Morecambe Bay
Cockling Tragedy in 2003. He's proud to be a Lancastrian and
reckons his patch is one of the most interesting and diverse
in the country.
Hobbies?
Fly fishing.
Contact
Peter
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