ITV News have announced a new presenter for their Calendar programme.
Lara Rostron will become Duncan Wood’s new permanent co-host on the 6pm programme from the start of April.
Rostron has years of experience working as a presenter and reporter in Yorkshire, the North East and around the UK.
She said: “I am thrilled to be joining the ITV Calendar team and to have the opportunity to work alongside Duncan Wood as we share the region's news each night with a wonderful audience.
"Yorkshire is my home; I moved here with my husband and young family in 2012 and fell in love with the place and the people right from the very start.
"I feel incredibly privileged to be co-presenting ITV Calendar and I am really looking forward to getting to know our viewers.”
Rostron, who lives in North Yorkshire, has reported on some of the region’s major news stories including the 2015 Boxing Day floods in York and the closure of Kellingley Colliery, the last deep coal mine in Britain.
Wood said: “I am looking forward to starting a new chapter on ITV News Calendar with Lara.
"She’s a great talent who knows the region and the people who live here.”
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