This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. It needs additional citations for verification. Tagged since August 2010. It relies on references to primary sources or sources affiliated with the subject, rather than references from independent authors and third-party publications. Tagged since October 2010. The notability of this article's subject is in question. If notability cannot be established, it may be listed for deletion or removed. Tagged since October 2010.

Alex Hammond is a British television presenter, reporter and horse racing expert, working currently for Sky Sports News and At the Races.

Media career[link]

Alex usually features on Sky Sports News' "Good Morning Sports Fans" schedule, from 6am to 10am, where she provides an extended covering of recent horse racing events, as well as a Tip of the Day. She covers the role of a track reporter for the At the Races channel. She has also presented Sky Sports' coverage of the Horse of the Year show. She has an online blog column on the Sky Sports website, primarily focused on horse racing.

References[link]

External links[link]

• Profile - Alex Hammond Sky Sports News
• Alex Hammond at TV Newsroom

Jo Wheeler (born 1963, Manchester) is an English weather forecaster who currently works for Sky News.

Early life[link]

Wheeler's father and uncle worked in the broadcasting industry. She spent a short time at drama school.

Career[link]

Before joining Sky, Wheeler had spells working for Central Television as a continuity announcer from 1983 and East Midlands Today as one of its first weather presenters when it was launched in 1991. She presented the afternoon weekend programme on Radio Lincolnshire from 1988-93. She was also voted Best European Weather Presenter in 1998. She joined Sky in 1994 where she also presented forecasts for Channel 5 until February 2012.

Sky News[link]

Jo Wheeler lives in Portugal with her husband and five children, and commutes to the UK-based Sky News Centre in Isleworth on a weekly basis to present the weather. Because of this, she acted as a live reporter in Praia da Luz during the initial coverage of the disappearance of Madeleine McCann before journalists arrived from London.

In 2010, Sky News carried out a major overhaul of its presentation, removing most of its weather presenters.^[1]

Personal life[link]

Wheeler married Richard Edwards in April 2000 in Cheshire.^[2] They moved from Wilmslow to Portugal in 2002 (being disillusioned with Britain and discipline in the state education system) and have had a daughter (born July 1999) and son (born November 2001) together. Jo has two daughters (born November 1990 and June 1994) and a son (born January 1992) from a previous relationship.

References[link]

External links[link]

• Going the distance Times Online, 2 September 2007
• Miles better Telegraph, 6 October 2007
• Jo Wheeler at the Internet Movie Database
• Joanne Wheeler - Q and A TV Newsroom

v t e Sky News in the United Kingdom British Sky Broadcasting Programmes Sky News Sunrise The Live Desk Sky News Today Boulton & Co Afternoon Live Live at Five Jeff Randall Live News, Sport & Weather Sky News at Ten Sky News Tonight Sky Midnight News CBS Evening News Sky News On The Hour Sky World News Saturday Live Weekend Lunchtime Sky News at Seven Murnaghan Reporters and presenters Main Anna Botting Adam Boulton Colin Brazier Lukwesa Burak Kay Burley Stephen Dixon Lorna Dunkley Charlotte Hawkins Eamonn Holmes Sarah Hewson Gillian Joseph Mark Longhurst Dermot Murnaghan Jeff Randall Samantha Simmonds Martin Stanford Jeremy Thompson Andrew Wilson Business Dharshini David Joel Hills Sport Jacquie Beltrao Rob Curling Jon Desborough Karthi Gnanasegaram Lisa Knights Sarah-Jane Mee Nick Powell Chris Skudder Matt Teale Charlie Thomas Graeme Winch Weather Nazaneen Ghaffar Isobel Lang Denise Nurse Jo Wheeler Other Philippa Hall Anna Jones Ashish Joshi Lisa Knights Sarah-Jane Mee Paula Middlehurst Tim Marshall Gemma Morris Chloe Potter Jayne Secker Matt Smith Category

Graham Little (born 12 April 1978, Enniskillen) ^[1] is a freelance Northern Irish television presenter and journalist. He is also the older brother of Rangers striker, and Northern Ireland international, Andrew Little.

Broadcasting career[link]

Little joined UTV in 2002 after working for The Impartial Reporter in his native Enniskillen.^[2] The following year, Little was voted the Best Broadcast Newcomer at the BT/IPR Awards.^[3]

In 2006, Little left UTV to work on a freelance basis,^[4] but has appeared on the station as a relief sports presenter^[5] and two one-off documentaries.^[6][7]

Little is currently the host of Sky Sports's coverage of Northern Ireland international football and Northern Ireland Premiership matches and also presents regularly on Sky Sports News. He also presents BBC Northern Ireland's 'Out Of The Blue' live arts programme with Joanne Salley, and appeared on The One Show with two short films about the Titanic in April 2012. He has also worked on BBC Northern Ireland consumer affairs series 'In Your Corner', presented Eurosport's 2010 coverage of cycling's British Road Race Championships, and fronted other cycling and golf programmes for Sky Sports. He has also presented and commentated at MMA events for a variety of channels including Bravo in the UK and ESPN in Asia.^[8] ]^[9] and Setanta Sports.^[10]

Little is also one half of the BBC Northern Ireland and RTÉ Two show Colin and Graham's Excellent Adventures in which he and close friend Colin Carroll tour the world and represent Ireland in obscure sporting events. He has written a travel book about his attempts to become a world champion in any sport, during which he captained Ireland to the amateur title at the World Elephant Polo Championships in Nepal. He has a regular adventure column in Yeah Baby, the Inflight Magazine of BMI Baby, and is also a regular contributor to the Easyjet Magazine.

Personal life[link]

Little attended Enniskillen Model Primary School^[11] and Portora Royal School, and went on to study English and Sports Science at Loughborough University.^[12]

In addition to his journalism career, Little runs a media services company called NPE Media Ltd. Little is married and has two young sons. He climbed Mt Kilimanjaro on honeymoon in Africa and has completed a series of endurance challenges including the Marathon des Sables in 2012, cycling a mountain stage of the Tour de France in 2010, and swimming from Europe to Asia across the Dardanelles Strait in Turkey. He also captained a Team No Prior Experience to victory in the inaugural Race Around Ireland ultra-endurance cycle race in 2009, and in July 2011 was part of a relay team that broke the record for swimming the entire length of Lough Erne in his native County Fermanagh. Little's team completed the swim in 19 hours and 6 minutes, beating the previous best by three hours.

References[link]

http://grahamlittle.tv/?page_id=25

External links[link]

• NPE Media - Little's media services website
• Video Memory - Little's video kiosk hire website
• http://www.grahamlittle.tv
• http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/proginfo/nations/northern_ireland/nipiwk24.pdf