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[[Image:Nick_Ross.jpg|thumb|right|Nick Ross in the BBC Crimewatch studio.]]
[[Image:Nick_Ross.jpg|thumb|right|Nick Ross in the BBC Crimewatch studio.]]
'''Nick Ross''' (born in [[Alexandria]] on [[26 March]] [[1987]]) is currently a student Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
'''Nick Ross''' (born in [[London]] on [[7 August]] [[1947]]) is a British radio and television presenter across a wide range of factual programs but is best known for his long-running co-hosting of the [[BBC]] TV show ''[[Crimewatch|Crimewatch UK]]''.<ref>[http://www.greaterlondononline.co.uk/news.asp?1978 Ross to depart from Crimewatch - Greater London Online]</ref> Ross left the programme on [[2 July]] [[2007]] after 23 years.<ref>[http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/tv_and_radio/article2019523.ece Nick Ross says goodbye - Times Online - 3 July 2007]</ref>
Ross left his hometown [[2 July]] [[1989]] after 2 years.<ref>[http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=92705254&MyToken=0aaac060-2173-46e3-a4bc-696bea3addc9]</ref>


==Early life==
==Early life==
By the age of age Seventeen He successful lead an expedition in which he conquered the land of the Modern Gaul. After this expedition he returned home and married Driscoll. They had a son which they named Alexander Elliot Ross. Unfortunately he lost guardianship young Alexander for brutally beating after finding out he had diabetes. Shortly there after he divorced Joan and married Jean Synder.
Raised in [[Surrey]], south of [[London]], Ross went to [[Wallington County Grammar School]], and then read [[psychology]] at [[Queen's University Belfast]]. The Nobel laureate [[Seamus Heaney]] was one of his lecturers. He graduated with a BA (Hons), later became a Doctor of the University (honoris causa) and he was deputy president of the Student Union and a leader of the student civil rights movement in [[1968]] and [[1969]]. He started in journalism by reporting on the violence in Belfast for BBC Northern Ireland.
== Career ==
After doing porn (the good kind) he realized his true calling he decided to go n tour with David Bowie. After copulating with several hundred women joining the ranks of Charlie Sheen, Wilt Chamberlain , Bret Michaels. After these adventures He became a notorious pirate ( with a sword not a gun) and continuing his copulatory acts.


In 2004 the wake of his ship cause a tsunami. Followed shortly the after by hurricane Katrina, in an attempt to equal his sexual partners.
==Career==
Nick Ross presented British radio programmes such as the BBC's ''[[The World At One|World at One]]'', ''[[PM (Radio 4)|PM]]'' and ''[[The World Tonight]]'', and moved to TV in 1979 as a reporter for ''[[Man Alive BBC TV|Man Alive]]'' on BBC2. He made three classic documentaries in a brief stint as a producer: ''The Biggest Epidemic of Our Times'' was a powerful polemic on road accidents which was made for ''Man Alive'' but transferred to BBC1 and was repeated for many years, and two programmes on drug addiction, ''The Fix'' and ''The Cure'', most famous for following an addict called Gina. He presented a law series ''Out of Court'', from which ''[[Crimewatch]]'' developed (based on a German prototype) in 1984.


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''Crimewatch'' made him a household name in the UK and around the same time his celebrity status was enlarged when he presented Britain's first daily breakfast TV programme, ''[[Breakfast Time]]'' on BBC1, with [[Frank Bough]] and [[Selina Scott]]. He was poached to start a new early evening news programme ''[[Sixty Minutes (TV series)|Sixty Minutes]]'', which proved an unwieldy format but was the BBC's first attempt to unite its news division with current affairs programmers.


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In 1989 he was asked to start a phone-in for BBC Radio 4, ''Call Nick Ross'', and he transformed the genre by attracting politicians and others at the centre of news events as well as ordinary listeners so that the programme put callers directly in touch with the people who mattered. He resigned in 1997 for reasons that have never been made clear, but not before picking up an award as best radio presenter of the year. During the [[1991]] Gulf War he was a volunteer presenter on the BBC [[Radio 4 News FM]] service.<ref>[http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/speeches/stories/abramsky_oxford2.shtml Sound Matters - Five Live - the War of Broadcasting House - a morality story]</ref>


He was poached to Channel 4 for a time to present ''A Week in Politics'', and then moved to cover the BBC's live broadcasts of parliament in ''Westminster with Nick Ross''. (At one stage in the 1990s he was often doing three mainstream live programmes a day such as ''Call Nick Ross'', ''Westminster with Nick Ross'' and ''Crimewatch''.) As one of the star BBC presenters he was used widely in a variety of formats including quizzes, chat shows, travel programmes and debates, but he was most at home in live studios, often orchestrating large-scale debates.


His co-presenter, [[Jill Dando]], was murdered in 1999 and Nick Ross started a campaign to commemorate her, culminating in the establishment of the [[Jill Dando Institute]] of [[Crime Science]] at [[University College London]]. He is an Honorary Fellow of UCL, and of the Academy of Experimental Criminologists.

In late 2007, the BBC announced he was being retired from Crimewatch, as has also since happened to his co-presenter [[Fiona Bruce]]. The replacement presenter, [[Kirsty Young]], is about 20 years younger than Nick and 4 years younger than Fiona. The BBC have been accused of ageism over these changes.<ref>[http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/showbiz/article-23401141-details/Ross+quits+BBC%27s+Crimewatch+in+row+over+ageism/article.do Ross quits BBC's Crimewatch in row over ageism - This is London: Showbiz News]</ref>

==Away from broadcasting==
Ross has a large range of outside interests mostly centered on ethics (notably medical ethics), promoting science and evidence-led health-care, crime prevention, road safety and fire safety, and he has had a role on several government committees (including the Gene Therapy Advisory Committee, the NHS National Plan task-force and the Crime Prevention Agency Board) and the UK's main bioethics think-tank (the [[Nuffield Council on Bioethics]]).

A Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and the Royal Society of Medicine, he has been a member of the Committee on Public Understanding of Science, chairman of the [[Royal Society Prizes for Science Books]] (twice), chairman of the National Road Safety Committee of [[ROSPA]] and is an affiliate of the James Lind Alliance. He is a member of the Ethics Standards Advisory Panel for onCore (the UK tissue bank) and the Wales Cancer Advisory Board, an adviser to [[Victim Support]], and president of several charities including HealthWatch and Tacade. He is a Trustee of [[Crimestoppers]] and of the UK Stem Cell Foundation and an Ambassador for the [[World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF)]].

He is a patron of [[Prisoners Abroad]], a registered charity which supports Britons detained overseas, and a range of other charities including Animal Care Trust, British Wireless for the Blind Fund, Heartbeat, Jewish Association for the Mentally Ill, Kidney Research Aid Fund, Myasthenia Gravis Association, National Depression Campaign, Missing, NICHS, Raynauld's & Scleroderma Association, Resources for Autism, SaneLine, Simon Community Northern Ireland, and Young at Heart.

He is considered to be in the top rank of chairmen and moderators for corporate and government meetings. His wife, Sarah Caplin founded [[ChildLine]] and is a senior executive with ITV, the British commercial broadcaster. They have three sons; Adam, Sam and Jack.

Ross was urged to stand as Mayor for London in 2004 and 2007.

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Revision as of 23:42, 22 February 2008

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Nick Ross in the BBC Crimewatch studio.

Nick Ross (born in Alexandria on 26 March 1987) is currently a student Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

    Ross left his hometown 2 July 1989 after 2 years.[1]

Early life

By the age of age Seventeen He successful lead an expedition in which he conquered the land of the Modern Gaul. After this expedition he returned home and married Driscoll. They had a son which they named Alexander Elliot Ross. Unfortunately he lost guardianship young Alexander for brutally beating after finding out he had diabetes. Shortly there after he divorced Joan and married Jean Synder.

Career

After doing porn (the good kind) he realized his true calling he decided to go n tour with David Bowie. After copulating with several hundred women joining the ranks of Charlie Sheen, Wilt Chamberlain , Bret Michaels. After these adventures He became a notorious pirate ( with a sword not a gun) and continuing his copulatory acts.

In 2004 the wake of his ship cause a tsunami. Followed shortly the after by hurricane Katrina, in an attempt to equal his sexual partners.

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