Lucy Kite is a British

United Kingdom

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 journalist, currently working with ITV Central. She is originally from Breaston

Breaston

Breaston is a large village in the south-east of Derbyshire in the East Midlands of England near Long Eaton and close to the M1.-History:Breaston was mentioned in the Domesday book as belonging to Henry de Ferrers and being worth four shillings....

, Derbyshire

Derbyshire

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Broadcasting career

Kite has reported on the East edition of Central News since 2003, mainly presenting celebrity interviews and reporting for a weekly feature Entertainment Tonight (for both East and West sub-regions), whilst also standing in for Sameena Ali-Khan

Sameena Ali-Khan

Sameena Ali-Khan is a British journalist currently employed by ITV Central.-Broadcasting career:Sameena launched her career in Manchester on a commercial radio station called Sunset in 1989 and then moved to the BBC in 1997 after returning to university for a masters in TV features and documentary...

, the main newscaster at the time.

Kite also presented Sky High, a regional programme covering views of the Midlands from a helicopter, until she was replaced by Ruth England

Ruth England

Ruth England is a British television presenter and actress. Currently, she stars in the Discovery Channel show Man, Woman, Wild with her husband Mykel Hawke, a former Army Special Forces officer...

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Following the departure of Joanne Malin

Joanne Malin

Joanne Malin is a British radio and television presenter. She was an anchor on Central News in the West Midlands alongside Bob Warman for many years. She currently presents a show on BBC WM.- Biography :...

 (the West edition main newscaster) from Central Tonight

Central Tonight

Central Tonight is a regional television news and current affairs programme, produced by ITV Central, serving the English Midlands.-History:...

 in October 2008, Lucy temporarily replaced her for the following three months. Following the merger of the East and West editions of the programme, Lucy was dropped as a newscaster and was appointed as the new weather presenter.

In August 2010 she presented the weather forecasts on London Tonight

London Tonight

London Tonight is a regional news programme broadcast on ITV London . Produced by ITN, the programme is broadcast at 6pm every weeknight, also including local sports news and local features of interest.Like all regional news programmes on ITV in England and Wales and Channel Television, it uses...

for ITV London

ITV London

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External links

• Official website
• Interview with Lucy Current Buns