Gerald William Vaughan Hine-Haycock, known in his earlier broadcasting career as Gerald Haycock, is a British broadcasting journalist of over thirty years" standing.
Education
Hine-Haycock was educated at, a boarding independent school for boys (now co-educational) in the village of Crowthorne in Berkshire in South East England, followed by the University of Stirling in the city of Stirling (Gaelic: Sruighlea pronounced ) in Central Scotland, where he graduated with Bachelor Honours, and Macalester College, a private liberal arts college in Saint Paul, the capital city of Minnesota, in the United States, where he studied English in 1972-1973.
Career
He is a former correspondent for Independent Television News and British Broadcasting Corporation News, and has worked for former Independent Television regional broadcasters Westward Television and HTV West, and for British Broadcasting Corporation West (all in South West England), latterly as a programme presenter. He later became Director of the British Broadcasting Corporation Regional News Training Scheme, Course Director of the British Broadcasting Corporation"s Journalist Training Scheme and Head of the British Broadcasting Corporation"s SON&R Centre. Hine-Haycock was born on 13 January 1951 in London.
He is the son of Brigadier William Hine-Haycock of the Duke of Cornwall"s Light Infantry and Felicity Hine-Haycock (née Harrison) of Toorak, a suburb of Melbourne, Australia, and has two sisters, Rozanthe and Daphne.
Hine-Haycock started in radio as a British Broadcasting Corporation graduate news trainee. He worked at British Broadcasting Corporation News, later becoming a reporter on Westward Diary for the-then Independent Television regional broadcasting contractor for South West England, Westward Television, followed by Independent Television News.
In 1981, he joined the regional Independent Television company HTV West, followed by British Broadcasting Corporation West, where he presented British Broadcasting Corporation Points West (between 1991-2000 known as British Broadcasting Corporation News West), a regional British Broadcasting Corporation news programme. He later became Director of the British Broadcasting Corporation Regional News Training Scheme, Course Director of the British Broadcasting Corporation"s Journalist Training Scheme and Head of the British Broadcasting Corporation"s SON&R (Sharing Opportunities across Nations & Regions) Centre, based in Bristol.
They live at Hempstone Park in the village of Littlehempston (near the market town of Totnes) in Devon, in South West England, and provide bed-and-breakfast accommodation.