Researching Shaun Ley
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 1308 people with the Ley surname? In that year Ley was ranked number 2321 for popularity in the UK. |
Records of Shaun Ley on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Shaun Ley and the Ley Genealogy
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| Did you know that there are currently 1723 people with the Ley surname in the UK? Ley is now ranked number 2527 for popularity in the UK. |
Ley Genealogy Databases
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Shaun Ley
Shaun Dominic Ley (born 14 June 1969 in Lynton, Devon) is a British journalist and newsreader for BBC News. A former regular presenter of The World This Weekend and The World at One on BBC Radio 4, he currently appears regularly on the BBC's domestic BBC News and international BBC World News channels, as well as on BBC Weekend News bulletins on BBC One. He also frequently hosts Dateline London, and has presented a wide range of BBC programmes from HARDTalk to BBC Radio 4's PM and The World Tonight.
As of October 2021, Shaun Ley is a regular weekday evening presenter (20:00-21:00 & 22:30-23:00 & 23:30-00:00) on BBC News. He sometimes hosts the afternoon news (14:00-17:00) occasionally and is the main presenter of Dateline London.
Ley was educated at two state schools in Devon in south west England: at Lynton Primary School, in his home town of Lynton, and at Ilfracombe College, in the seaside resort of Ilfracombe on the North Devon coast, followed by the London School of Economics, in central London.
After a stint as a schoolboy presenter on the short-lived That's Life! Junior in 1980, Ley joined the BBC as a graduate trainee in 1990, and later worked on the regional news programme Points West. He became Political Editor for the South East Cluster; based at BBC Elstree appearing regularly on the then regional news programme for London and the home counties Newsroom SouthEast, as well as on the clusters radio stations BBC GLR 94.9, BBC Three Counties Radio, and BBC Radios Kent, and Essex. The region was divided in two in 2001 to form BBC London and BBC South East Today. He then presented Around Westminster, before becoming a national political correspondent for the BBC in 2001. He began presenting The World This Weekend in 2005.
Ley is a longtime fan of the BBC series Doctor Who and in 2011 he presented and narrated When Worlds Collide, a documentary accompanying the DVD release of The Happiness Patrol, which looked into the series' political and ideological influences over the years.
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