Rachael Robertson
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Rachael Robertson is a former British
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 television continuity announcer and presenter.

Robertson began her career with Grampian Television
Grampian Television
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 (now STV North) in the mid 1990s as a staff announcer and newsreader for Grampian Headlines, replacing Tracey Crawford
Tracey Crawford
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, who had left to join Granada
Granada Television
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. She also presented a number of regional programmes for the station including The Birthday Spot, The Scottish Tourism Supreme Awards and the BAFTA-nominated Saturday morning children's magazine show Wize Up, alongside announcing colleagues Scott Brown
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 and Kate Fraser
Kate Fraser
Kate Fraser is a former continuity announcer for Grampian Television and Scottish Television.She joined Grampian in 1993 and remained until the station's presentation department closed in June 1998...

. Following the Scottish Media Group's takeover of Grampian in 1997, Robertson featured as a reporter for Scottish Television
Scottish Television
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's long-running travel show, Scottish Passport.

Robertson left Grampian when the station closed down its Aberdeen-based presentation department in 1998 and soon became an announcer for BBC1
BBC One
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 and BBC2
BBC Two
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. She left the BBC
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in December 2003. Robertson is no longer working in television.
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