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Mark first received national recognition in 2003 when he was crowned the Sony Radio Academy News Broadcaster of the year.

The judges described him as "The epitome of what a local radio broadcaster should be in his reporting of news, responding to the community and holding service providers to account."

In 2006 Mark and his breakfast team were also awarded the EDF energy regional radio journalist of the year award.

2007 saw Mark's breakfast show nominated for a Sony Radio Academy News and Current Affairs award for its sensitive coverage of the killings of five women in Ipswich.

The dream team with the Sony Award

In the same year Mark, producer Kate Arkell and engineer David Butcher scooped a Frank Gillard (BBC local radio) award for their outside broadcast in Jamestown, USA.

The team travelled to Virginia to follow in the footsteps of Suffolk explorer Bartholomew Gosnold, who's credited with founding the first English-speaking settlement in North America.

It was this outside broadcast that also earned Mark his second Sony Radio Academy gold award in 2008.   

In 2009 Mark and his breakfast team received another top gong as they were crowned EDF energy regional news and current affairs programme of the year.

Mark's Don't Be A Tosser campaign also won two prestigious Frank Gillard awards in the same year.

More about Mark

Mark was born in Suffolk and is passionate about broadcasting in his home patch.

"Presenting the BBC Radio Suffolk Breakfast Show is a dream come true for me.

Three mugs in a line!

"I remember listening to the very first Good Morning Suffolk Show on 12 April 1990 and I was determined that one day I would work for my local radio station and now I'm presenting that very programme on that very station," said Mark

Mark also hosts a Saturday show from 9.00am until midday.

Football Crazy

Mark is an Ipswich Town season ticket holder and sits in the North Stand upper tier with his wife and fellow BBC Radio Suffolk presenter Lesley Dolphin.

They both walk their rescue dog Satsuma and can usually be found stomping out and about with him somewhere in the Suffolk countryside.

Mark also has an unhealthy obsession with the UFO sightings in Rendlesham Forest in 1980. "I'm determined one day to find out what really happened that night."

Listen to highlights of Mark on air by clicking on the links on the right>>

Fact File

Starsign: Taurus

Grew up in: Ipswich

First job: Motor vehicle technician at a local garage

First car: Morris Marina - I still have the number plates as a souvenir

First  ever record: Laurie Lingo and the Dipsticks 'Convoy GB'

Favourite Things

Place in Suffolk: Portman Road especially when Ipswich win!

Item in wardrobe: Anything that still fits!

Food: Any sort of seafood... especially whelks

Song: 'Barbados' by Typically Tropical

Film: True Grit starring John Wayne

TV Show as an adult: Desperate Housewives

TV Show as a child: The Munsters or Andy Pandy

Colour: Supporting Ipswich Town it has to blue!

Best moment on air: Every time the red light goes on I love it! I always dreamed when I was a little boy about being on the radio and now I am!!

Worst moment on air: Covering the Ipswich murders story. It was the most horrific time to live through.