Darren Bett
Template:Short description Template:BLP no footnotes Template:Use British English Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox person Darren Victor Bett (born July 1968 in Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire) is an English weather forecaster for the BBC, broadcasting on television and radio. Bett is a main weather presenter on BBC Radio 5 Live and also appears on the BBC News Channel, BBC World News, BBC One and BBC Radio 4.
Early life
He was born in Scunthorpe War Memorial Hospital in July 1968, the son of Margaret Goodband (1943-2024) and Victor Bett. His father studied at North Lindsey Technical College in the field of the iron and steel industry.<ref>Scunthorpe Evening Telegraph Saturday 18 July 1964, page 5</ref> His brother Russell was born on 6 June 1971.<ref>Grimsby Evening Telegraph Friday 1 June 1984, page 2</ref>
As well as Scunthorpe, Bett lived in Kirton in Lindsey,<ref>Retford News Friday 19 November 1976, page 2</ref> on Highfield Drive,<ref>Grimsby Evening Telegraph Friday 11 June 1982, page 12</ref> where he attended primary school.<ref>Retford News Friday 10 June 1977, page 2</ref><ref>Retford News Friday 21 July 1978, page 2</ref>
He attended the Huntcliff School, Kirton in Lindsey, where he gave a talk on 21 October 1993.<ref>Scunthorpe Evening Telegraph Friday 15 October 1993, page 14</ref> He completed his A levels in maths, physics and chemistry<ref>Scunthorpe Evening Telegraph Thursday 21 August 1986, page 14</ref> at John Leggott College, in the west of Scunthorpe, in the same year as Dame Rachel de Souza. He studied at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, receiving a degree in environmental science in 1989.<ref name=":0">Template:Cite news</ref>
Career
In September 1989, he joined the Met Office as a weather forecaster. He worked at Glasgow Weather Centre and the National Meteorological Centre in Bracknell, then moved to the Leeds Weather Centre in 1992.<ref name=":0" /> From 1994, he was one of the main weather presenters for the local regional news programmes Calendar and Look North. He moved to London to work for the BBC News Channel (then called BBC News 24) in November 1997, to be replaced in Leeds by Paul Hudson.
References
External links
- BBC biography
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