Chris Vacher

Chris Vacher (born 1951) is a British television presenter, best known as the long-serving main anchor of BBC West's flagship regional news programme Points West.

Brought up near Axeminster on the Somerset-Devon border, Vacher attended Sherborne School and the Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth (in the same year as Prince Charles) before joining the Navy in 1969 as a seaman officer.^[1]

He joined the BBC in 1981 working for Radio Bristol before becoming a freelance reporter and newsreader for Points West a year later.^[2] He joined the main presenting team in 1983 and holds the record as the longest serving presenter for any BBC regional news programme. Vacher, a past winner of the Royal Television Society's 'Regional TV Personality of the Year in the West' award, has also worked on various documentary specials as part of the regional current affairs series Close Up West.

On 9 September 2011, Vacher announced he would retire from Points West after 28 years in December 2011.^[3] He is married to Tilly with two sons.

References

1. ^ BBC Points West official website
2. ^ BBC Points West - Chris Vacher
3. ^ Veteran Points West presenter Chris Vacher to retire, BBC News, 9 September 2011

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