Broadcaster and popular anchor of the BBC’s Look North news programme who was dedicated to his native Yorkshire
Harry Gration, who has died suddenly aged 71, was one of Britain’s longest-serving regional TV news presenters, anchoring Look North for most of four decades from the BBC’s studios in Leeds. He was also known to national audiences for his rugby league coverage as a radio commentator and TV presenter.
Through two periods fronting Look North, from 1982 to 1994 and 1999 to 2020, the Yorkshire-born broadcaster became an institution.
