Gordon Burns (born 10 June 1942) is a British journalist and broadcaster who hosted Granada TV's popular game show The Krypton Factor for its original 18 year run (1977–1995). From 1997 to 2011, he was the chief anchorman for the BBC regional news programme North West Tonight.

Due to his work commitments with Granada Manchester on programmes such as World in Action and Granada Reports and later BBC Manchester for North West Tonight, he has resided in Manchester for over thirty years. Burns now hosts a Sunday morning radio show for BBC Radio Manchester and BBC Radio Lancashire. He is known for a bona fide style of presenting which has made him popular with his audience.

Burns lived in Lisburn in Northern Ireland up to the age of five, and returned from London, where his father had worked as the editor of Hansard. He was educated at Dulwich College, a boys' independent school in South London, then at 13, attended Campbell College, a grammar school in Belfast.

He began his journalism career working on the Belfast Telegraph and worked on BBC radio's long-running Sports Report before joining Ulster Television as a sports editor and programme producer in 1967. Two years later, Burns began presenting the nightly news programme UTV Reports, first as a stand-in for regular frontman David Mahlowe and later as a chief anchor, during the early stages of The Troubles. In 1973, Burns joined Granada Television to anchor their nightly news programme Granada Reports and to work on the station's current affairs output, including World in Action.

Dianne Oxberry (b. 1967, Sunderland) is an English broadcaster and meteorologist, best known as a weather presenter for the BBC regional news programme North West Tonight.

Oxberry originally joined the BBC as a personal assistant at Radio 2, having previously auditioned for a presenting role on the youth music series No Limits. She began her broadcasting career while working on BBC Radio 1, working alongside Steve Wright and later, becoming part of Simon Mayo's on-air team for the weekday breakfast show. In 1991, she became a presenter for the second series of the Saturday morning children's TV programme, The 8:15 from Manchester.

After studying meteorology at the Met Office College in Berkshire, Oxberry joined BBC North West in 1995 as its first dedicated weather presenter. Alongside her forecasting work, she has also previously co-presented the weekday breakfast show on BBC Radio Manchester (alongside Eamonn O'Neal) and has worked as a relief newsreader & presenter for North West Tonight.

Danielle Hope (born 26 April 1992) is an English actress and singer. She is the winner of the BBC talent contest Over The Rainbow and as a result played the part of Dorothy in the Andrew Lloyd Webber production of The Wizard of Oz, which began performances in the West End at the London Palladium in February 2011.

Hope lived in Urmston, Greater Manchester and attended Knutsford High School in Cheshire, concentrating in drama and dance. Hope appeared in many of her school's musical theatre productions, playing such roles as Carmen in the musical Fame, the narrator in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and Maria in West Side Story. She also appeared in We Will Rock You alongside Charlotte Wakefield from Spring Awakening

She left her part-time job as a waitress to focus on her A-level studies in Drama and Dance, and a BTEC National Award Musical Theatre. She has also studied dance privately and performed at dance festivals, including the BBC African Dance Project at Bridgewater Hall.

Lee Boardman (born 2 July 1972 in Manchester, England) is an English actor and narrator.

He is best known for playing Murray Priestman in Drop Dead Gorgeous as well as the drug dealer Jez Quigley in Coronation Street. He appears as Timon the Jew in the television series Rome. He also made an appearance in the fifth episode of the 2011 BBC crime-drama series Death in Paradise.

In 2006 Lee starred in the film Fated (2006).

He was also the narrator of popular Police documentary Road Wars and its spin off Street Wars.

His BBC series Drop Dead Gorgeous won Best Comedy Drama at the British Comedy Awards 2008.

He attended Reddish Vale Technology College in Stockport, Greater Manchester. Boardman then graduated from Oxford Drama School and is married to Jennifer James. They have one son, Jack Alexander, born March 2004 and a daughter, Scarlett Marie, born April 2010.

Phil Hawkins is a singer / songwriter from Essex in the united kingdom he is known mainly in a cult following of fans of his work, very much a word of mouth kind of notoriety. He has been hailed as the next great undiscovered songwriter. He signed his first independent record deal in 2012 and his first album will be available to download in late 2012 under the title "songs for woodland creatures".

Phil started his professional career at 15, early jobs included potters leisure resort where he lived and worked with Lee Meed (any dream will do winner) and worked with Leanne Mitchell (the voice winner). Leanne and Lee have both sung on Phils original compositions.

Phil is a multi instrumentalist playing guitar, piano, drum and bass. He is also an experienced actor and has worked as a dancer.