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Journalism

Tomson began her journalism career in the West Midlands as an 18-year-old trainee newspaper reporter with the Midland News Association ^[1]. She worked on the company's weekly Chronicle series before moving onto the Wolverhampton-based Express & Star daily newspaper where she was chief reporter. ^[2] She also freelanced on the Daily Mail ^[3]

Broadcasting

In 2002, Tomson joined ITV Central as a production journalist before moving into presenting and reporting. She regularly co-hosted Central Tonight alongside long-standing news anchor Bob Warman.Cite error: A <ref> tag is missing the closing </ref> (see the help page).http://philippatomson.co.uk/main.html</ref>http://icbirmingham.icnetwork.co.uk/cityliving/exclusives/mcl/tm_headline=philippa-tomson%26method=full%26objectid=17499132%26siteid=50002-name_page.html</ref> In 2006, she was named co-anchor of ITV Tyne Tees' North East Tonight ^[4]. From early 2009, she began weather presenting alongside her regular news commitments on North East Tonight and Border's Lookaround programmme ^[5] Tomson appeared as a weather presenter on GMTV in November and December 2009 and for ITV's Daybreak in December 2010. She has also worked as a news presenter on the ITV News Channel, ITV's London Tonight, Central News East, ITV West Country and the weekly current affairs programme Central News Extra. ^[6] She joined Sky News in May 2012 as a freelance news presenter and reporter ^[7]

Corporate

She has hosted events for clients including Steve Cram, Sir Ian Botham, the Sir Bobby Robson Foundation, Sunderland AFC, Peugeot, rugby union player Tom May and the Entrepreneurs' Forum.

Personal

Tomson lives in West London. She was born in York and her parents are both retired teachers. Educated at Holy Trinity School, Kidderminster, she is a former head girl. She has an older brother who is a commercial law barrister in Central London. A huge dog lover, Tomson is the proud owner of two Tibetan Terriers.

Charity

Tomson is patron of animal charities Stray Aid and Ark On The Edge ^[8]. She is also a patron of domestic violence charity Someone Cares ^[9] and is a regular supporter of former athlete Steve Cram's charity COCO. In March 2013, she was Steve's phone-a-friend on a special charity edition of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire. She has completed the Great North Run half marathon four times, successfully trekked to the summit of Kilimanjaro, done a parachute jump with the Red Devils and a bungee jump over the River Tyne. In early 2014, she takes part in a charity bike ride through Kenya. Pip is a Vice-President of the Midlands-based Gentlemen Songsters Male Voice Choir and hosted concerts alongside singer and broadcaster Aled Jones.

Samgram13 (talk) 08:59, 10 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ http://www.zoominfo.com/#!search/profile/person?personId=633398345&targetid=profile
^ http://www.zoominfo.com/#!search/profile/person?personId=633398345&targetid=profile
^ http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/search.html?s=&authornamef=Philippa+Tomson
^ http://philippatomson.co.uk/main.html
^ http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/weathergirl-philippa-tomson-set-go-1462512
^ http://philippatomson.co.uk/main.html
^ http://www.philippatomson.co.uk/main.html
^ http://www.philippatomson.co.uk/main.html
^ http://www.someonecares.org.uk/about/patrons/

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She is now referred to as Pip Tomson not Philippa anymore! --Annamargarita0 (talk) 09:01, 17 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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