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Carol Malia

It seems a long time since I was sitting in a classroom at the age of 14 talking to a teacher about my future. She suggested journalism as a career because "I was nosey enough" and could write reasonably well.

That well and truly planted the seed and I eventually qualified as a senior journalist after training in Darlington and working as chief reporter for the Hartlepool Mail in 1989.

I enjoyed spells in 主播大秀 Radio Cumbria and Border Television in Carlisle before ending up this side of the Pennines again to work for Tyne Tees.

I've been presenting Look North for the 主播大秀 since the late 1990s and it's my dream job. Which other would have given me the opportunity of walking along the wing of the Angel of the North with its creator? (It was still to be assembled in a steel yard in Hartlepool at the time).

But outside of work duties, my real love is the outdoors. Nothing beats that feeling of achievement when you've hiked up a 3,000ft hill or finding yourself in a pile at the bottom of one you've just skied.

However, a long-proclaimed desire to learn surfing at Tynemouth has never been realised. Strangely, I just can't motivate myself to be plunged into the freezing depths, while being heckled from the beach by well-wishers. But it's a promise I stand by so you may well see me one fine, hot, day in 2012 attempting the sport.