Gerald Hine-Haycock


Gerald William Vaughan Hine-Haycock, known in his earlier broadcasting career as Gerald Haycock, is a British broadcasting journalist of over thirty years' standing. He is a former correspondent for Independent Television News and BBC News, and has worked for former ITV regional broadcasters Westward Television and HTV West, and for BBC West, latterly as a programme presenter. He later became Director of the BBC Regional News Training Scheme, Course Director of the BBC's Journalist Training Scheme and Head of the BBC's SON&R Centre.

Early life

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 of Toorak, a suburb of Melbourne, Australia, and has two sisters, Rozanthe and Daphne.

Education

Hine-Haycock was educated at Wellington College, a boarding independent school for boys in the village of Crowthorne in Berkshire in South East England, followed by the University of Stirling in the city of Stirling in Central Scotland, where he graduated with BA 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 1972–73.

Life and career

Hine-Haycock started in radio as a BBC graduate news trainee. He worked at BBC News, later becoming a reporter on Westward Diary for the-then ITV regional broadcasting contractor for South West England, Westward Television, followed by Independent Television News. In 1981, he joined the regional ITV company HTV West, followed by BBC West, where he presented BBC Points West, a regional BBC news programme. He then became BBC West's Staff Reporter, responsible for many national news stories across the BBC's output at home and abroad. He later became Director of the BBC Regional News Training Scheme, Course Director of the BBC's Journalist Training Scheme and Head of the BBC's SON&R Centre, based in Bristol.
He was picked as High Sheriff of Devon for the year 2020–2021.

Family

Hine-Haycock has a wife, Judy, and four children. They live at Hempstone Park in the village of Littlehempston in Devon, in South West England, and provide bed-and-breakfast accommodation.