British television presenter (born 1951)

Christopher George Vacher (born 3 December 1951) is a British television presenter, best known as a long-serving main anchor of BBC West's flagship regional news programme Points West for 28 years.

Contents

• 1 Early life
• 2 Broadcasting career
• 3 Private life
• 4 References
• 5 External links

Early life

Brought up near Axminster 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 Royal Navy in 1969 as a seaman officer.

Broadcasting career

Vacher joined the BBC in 1981 working for Radio Bristol before becoming a freelance reporter and newsreader for Points West a year later. He joined the main presenting team in 1983 and holds the record as the programme's longest serving main presenter. 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 do*entary specials as part of the regional current affairs series Close Up West.

Vacher presented Points West for the final time on Friday 9 December 2011. Vacher was then the longest-serving regional presenter who had worked for the BBC.

Private life

Vacher is married and has two sons from his first marriage to Tilly.

References

External links

• Chris Vacher at IMDb