Peter Henley
Political Correspondent @Bbc News
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WORK HISTORY
Political Correspondent @Bbc News
EDUCATION
University of Leicester
BA (Hons)
Falmouth University
MA
SKILLS
ABOUT PETER HENLEY
Peter Henley reports from Westminster for regional news programme BBC South Today and presents the regional programme Politics South on BBC1. He is also a regular contributor on local radio and writes for BBC Online.He trained as a local reporter in Cornwall and then Yorkshire before moving to Reading. He\'s stayed in the south of England ever since, covering elections and interviewing all the party leaders since Edward Heath. Peter joined the BBC as a Health Correspondent in 2001, and won awards for an investigation into the deaths of elderly patients at a cottage hospital and a series of reports into the effects of asbestos in the building trade. He started his TV career with TVS and ITV Meridian, filing from Kuwait during the first Gulf War and winning a Sony radio award for coverage of the Clapham train crash. Favourite assignments include flying to Antigua at three hours\' notice to report on an erupting volcano and mysteriously being unable to come straight home. Peter enjoys old cars and new gadgets. He lives in the New Forest with his wife Sam, who\'s a counsellor.
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