Martine Sarah Croxall is an English

English people

The English are a nation and ethnic group native to England, who speak English. The English identity is of early mediaeval origin, when they were known in Old English as the Anglecynn. England is now a country of the United Kingdom, and the majority of English people in England are British Citizens...

 journalist

Journalist

A journalist collects and distributes news and other information. A journalist's work is referred to as journalism.A reporter is a type of journalist who researchs, writes, and reports on information to be presented in mass media, including print media , electronic media , and digital media A...

 and television

Television

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 news presenter

News presenter

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Education

Croxall was educated at St Margaret's, Church of England Primary School in the village of Stoke Golding, Leicestershire. The school is situated near to the exact place where King Henry VII was crowned immediately after the Battle of Bosworth Field in 1485. Croxall's father taught the school's young students swimming, at after school swimming lessons in the school's own swimming pool, while she was a student there. She then continued her education at the independent Bablake School

Bablake School

Bablake School is a co-educational Independent school located in Coventry, England and founded in 1344 by Queen Isabella, making it one of the oldest schools in the United Kingdom...

 in Coventry

Coventry

Coventry is a city and metropolitan borough in the county of West Midlands in England. Coventry is the 9th largest city in England and the 11th largest in the United Kingdom. It is also the second largest city in the English Midlands, after Birmingham, with a population of 300,848, although...

. She then studied Geography at the University of Leeds

University of Leeds

The University of Leeds is a British Redbrick university located in the city of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England...

, gaining her BA in 1990, following this with a year out in Africa

Africa

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Career

She joined the BBC

BBC

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 with work experience at BBC Radio Leicester

BBC Radio Leicester

BBC Radio Leicester is the BBC Local Radio service for the English counties of Leicestershire and Rutland. The station broadcasts from studios in Leicester on 104.9 FM, on DAB, and via the BBC iPlayer.-History:...

. Following this, Croxall began work at East Midlands Today

East Midlands Today

East Midlands Today is the BBC's regional television news programme for its East Midlands region, which covers Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Rutland, and the Grantham and Stamford areas of Lincolnshire....

, the BBC regional news programme for that region. Since that she has also worked at Newsroom South East

Newsroom South East

Newsroom South East was the name of the BBC's regional news programme for southeastern England. It was launched in March 1989 as the successor to London Plus, the South East's previous news programme...

 (1997) and UK Today

UK Today

UK Today was a BBC television news programme shown on the digital satellite and digital terrestrial versions of BBC One. It consisted of a round up of stories from the BBC's various local news programmes where it had not initially been possible to show regional variations...

, a BBC satellite television programme discontinued in 2002.

She is currently a relief presenter on BBC News, as well as being a presenter of the overnight 0100 - 0500 time slot simulcast on the channel and international news and current affairs channel, BBC World News she has also taken a new role presenting Extreme Weather for GREEN.TV http://green.tv.

Personal life

Croxall married Stephen Morris in December 2000 in Kensington

Kensington

Kensington is a district of west and central London, England within the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. An affluent and densely-populated area, its commercial heart is Kensington High Street, and it contains the well-known museum district of South Kensington.To the north, Kensington is...

, west London

London

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. The couple have a son (born March 2002) and daughter (born June 2004), and live in Hertfordshire

Hertfordshire

Hertfordshire is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in the East region of England. The county town is Hertford.The county is one of the Home Counties and lies inland, bordered by Greater London , Buckinghamshire , Bedfordshire , Cambridgeshire and...

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External links

• Q&A at TV Newsroom