Category: East Midlands TV
Date: 01.09.2005
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Marie Ashby returns to the 91Èȱ¬ after 15 years to present two shows in the East Midlands - the highly successful Inside Out and the brand new East Midlands Politics Show.
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Unable to turn her back on live news, she'll also be popping up on 91Èȱ¬ East Midlands Today with her former co-host Dominic Heale.
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On leaving Central News, Marie says: "It's an incredibly exciting move that brings me back to the East Midlands and makes me feel like I'm really coming home.
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"The 91Èȱ¬ is where it all started for me and the East Midlands has been my home for nearly 20 years."
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At noon from Sunday 18 September on 91Èȱ¬ ONE,ÌýJon Sopel reports on the important issues of the week and interviews high profile guests before handing over toÌýMarieÌýinÌýNottingham for a full 20 minutes looking at local matters in theÌýEast Midlands.
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Mike Bettison, Head of Regional and Local Programmes, 91Èȱ¬ East Midlands, says: "It's a great coup for 91Èȱ¬ East Midlands to have someone of Marie's calibre joining our team. We're looking forward to the great contribution she'll make on and off screen."
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Marie says: "I'm just so excited about being closer to home and having such a wide variety of work in my new job back at the 91Èȱ¬. Life couldn't be better."
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Marie first joined 91Èȱ¬ Radio Cumbria as a district reporter covering the Lake District after completing a post-graduate journalism course.
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In her first week for Radio Cumbria, Marie was given a tape recorder, a car and sent to the lakes and simply told to come back in a week with some stories.
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Later that year, Marie took a reporter's job at 91Èȱ¬ Radio Nottingham where listeners would have known her as Marie Stevenson.
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Throughout her time reporting in the East Midlands, Marie has reported a wide variety of stories: navigating her way through the politics of the 1987 General Election, interviewing Neil Kinnock and Brian Clough; through-the-night bulletins covering the Kegworth air disaster; and the Broxtowe child abuse case, then Britain's biggest ever child abuse case.
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In 1989 Marie left 91Èȱ¬ to join Central News as a reporter and was soon an anchor presenter on their main news programme.
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Marie has also presented a wealth of other programmes covering political and social issues and more recently she's taken viewers on ariel journeys across the Midlands in a helicopter.
