Young Bristol would like to invite you to a Presentation by Simon McCoy, BBC Journalist and Newsreader.

He joined TV-am as a news editor and left in 1988 to go to Sky News, initially as a producer on the Sky News breakfast programme Sunrise.

Between 1991 and 1996 he was appointed Royal Correspondent and covered all the major stories which affected the Royal Family.

After a job which involved travel around the world, Simon took a desk job - presenting the Sunrise programme on Sky News. He also presented the Tonight programme, and in 2003 co-anchored Sky's coverage of the Iraq war on location in Kuwait and Basra. He was on air for five hours every day of the conflict.

In January 2004 Simon joined the BBC, presenting on both BBC Breakfast and the BBC News channel, subsequently taking over the morning slot on BBC News.

Simon was on the roster for coverage of the birth of the first child of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Prince George. Stationed outside the Lindo Wing at St Mary's Hospital with often little or no news to share, McCoy's comments concerning the value of the news coverage made for (often sympathetic) headlines. And famously said, "The news is there is no news"

He has appeared as himself, reading the news, in the 2007 BBC Two drama Party Animals, in several episodes of Spooks, Holby Blue, and in The Amazing Mrs Pritchard. Simon also had a newsreading role in the 2006 Anthony Horowitz movie Operation Stormbreaker.

He came to the media's attention again in 2017, when introducing a story about surfboarding dogs, with as little interest as possible, as only Simon can.

In 2017 he started presenting Afternoon Live - every weekday afternoon for BBC News.

Simon is the son of well-known retired Bristol Surgeon, David McCoy.

We would like to thank Simon for giving this talk to support our work with the young people of Bristol.