Beverley Thompson

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Beverley Thompson is a BBC television presenter in the South East of England. Currently, she presents the BBC South East flagship news programme South East Today alongside Geoff Clark.

[edit] Career

Beverley's career with the BBC has spanned over 20 years - much of that time spent on regional news. She began in the mid 80s as a reporter for Wales Today. She progressed to reading short news bulletins and occasionally presenting the main 5:35pm programme. By 1988, she moved to BBC West in Bristol and became a presenter of Points West. After a few years, she moved north to Newcastle and worked on the North East and Cumbria edition of Look North. This was followed by a stint at South Today in Southampton.

Then, in 2001, she became Health Correspondent for the then-new South East Today service in Tunbridge Wells, serving Kent and East Sussex. However, changes to the presentation team caused by the resignation of then-main presenter Laurie Mayer meant that Beverley was promoted to become main presenter.

Alongside BBC regional news, Beverley has worked on BBC Breakfast News, Woman's Hour and the international news channel BBC World.