Luisa Baldini is Anglo

English people

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-Italian

Italian people

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 news reporter and presenter, presently working for BBC News

BBC News

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Biography

Born in Tanzania to an Italian father and English mother, she first came to the UK when the family moved to North London

North London

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. She attended St. Helen's School

St. Helen's School

St. Helen's School, founded in 1899, is a selective independent day school in Northwood, North West London for girls aged three to eighteen. It is also the sister school of Merchant Taylors' School. It previously accepted boarders but as of Autumn 2009 the school is no longer a boarding school, and...

 and then Haileybury College, Hertford. After graduating in modern languages from Exeter University, she did a Post Graduate Diploma in Broadcast Journalism at Falmouth College of Arts.

Career

On graduation she worked for London

London

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-based rolling news radio station News Direct 97.3FM, she then moved to satellite channel EuroNews

EuroNews

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, and then Five News

Five News

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She then moved to the BBC

BBC

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, first as a regional reporter in London, before becoming a roving reporter for BBC Breakfast

BBC Breakfast

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. On creation of the BBC News Channel, she started undertaking major incident reports. She remains a reporter, and undertakes occasional presenting roles as a relief presenter on BBC News.

In 2004, Otis Ferry

Otis Ferry

Charles Frederick Otis Ferry, born is a British fox hunting enthusiast and prominent pro-hunting protestor. He is the son of singer Bryan Ferry and model Lucy Helmore. Ferry is joint master huntsman of the South Shropshire hunt....

 tried to contact Baldini before he and his friends raided the House of Commons in support of the hunting

Hunting

Hunting is the practice of pursuing any living thing, usually wildlife, for food, recreation, or trade. In present-day use, the term refers to lawful hunting, as distinguished from poaching, which is the killing, trapping or capture of the hunted species contrary to applicable law...

 debates.

Being trilingual (she speaks Italian, English and French), Baldini has been sent to Italy

Italy

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 to report on major news stories for BBC News, including the death of the Pope

Pope

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 John Paul II, the 2009 Italian earthquakes, and the trial concerning the Murder of Meredith Kercher

Murder of Meredith Kercher

The murder of Meredith Kercher occurred in Perugia, Italy, on 1 November 2007. Kercher, aged 21 at the time of her death, was a British university exchange student from Coulsdon, south London. She was found dead on the floor of her bedroom with stab wounds to the throat...

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External links

• Q&A at TV Newsroom