Phillip "Phil" Lavelle is an English-born and based TV news reporter and presenter. He currently works freelance with Five News, BBC London and BBC Breakfast. He previously worked at BBC Breakfast on BBC1. Prior to this, he spent just over a year reporting and reading the news for the BBC's regional TV service in London, BBC London.

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  • Phillip "Phil" Lavelle is an English-born and based TV news reporter and presenter. He currently works freelance with Five News, BBC London and BBC Breakfast. He previously worked at BBC Breakfast on BBC1. Prior to this, he spent just over a year reporting and reading the news for the BBC's regional TV service in London, BBC London. He was also co-presenter of the BBC's London coverage of the annual charity appeal, 'Children in Need' in November 2008 with former Blue Peter presenter, Konnie Huq broadcast live from Wembley Arena Phil is a former freelance news presenter for Sky News - based in London and broadcasting to an international audience. He spent six months reading their news overnight and also contributing as a co-presenter to their flagship 'Sunrise' news programme. His career began as a runner for Granada Television's regional ITV News service in Manchester in the late nineties. From there, he went on to work at another ITV company, Tyne Tees Television which broadcast to the Northeast of England from York up the Scottish borders and west towards Cumbria. There, he was employed as a researcher but went on to become a trainee reporter. In 2001, he left Tyne Tees to move down to London where he worked initially at the news production company, ITN, as a freelance Assistant News Editor for ITV's national news based at network centre: 200 Grays Inn Road, London. A few months later, he moved to another department within ITN - Five News which the company also produced for the Five network until 2004. There, he was employed as a news producer but then went on to become one of Five News' presenters and latterly Northern England Correspondent where he was the first journalist to break the news of the murder of Iraq hostage, Ken Bigley. Phil also covered other stories such as issues with the Scottish Parliament over running on cost and the murder in Nottingham of schoolgirl, Danielle Becan. In 2004, he left ITN to move to Sky News which had won the contract to provide news for Five for a five year period worth £35m. He stayed there briefly before being headhunted by Al Jazeera to become Assistant Programme Editor for the new English language channel the Arabic network was planning to launch. Phil spent two and a half years working for the network in its London news centre before leaving in late 2007 to work for Sky News and BBC London. Further examples of Phil's work can be found at the following addresses: BBC Breakfast News Presenting Children in Need for BBC London 2008 Reporting and presenting at BBC London Presenting at Sky News
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  • Phillip "Phil" Lavelle is an English-born and based TV news reporter and presenter. He currently works freelance with Five News, BBC London and BBC Breakfast. He previously worked at BBC Breakfast on BBC1. Prior to this, he spent just over a year reporting and reading the news for the BBC's regional TV service in London, BBC London.
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  • Phil Lavelle
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