1. Christa Marion Ackroyd is an English journalist and broadcaster, best known as a former presenter for the regional TV news programmes Calendar and BBC Look North.
15 Facts About Christa Ackroyd
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Christa Ackroyd began her broadcasting career in the newsroom of commercial radio station Pennine Radio in Bradford, where she led the station's coverage of the Yorkshire Ripper case.
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Christa Ackroyd was promoted as Radio Aire's programming controller in 1985, often presenting weekend shows and the station's flagship news programme, Radio Aire Reports.
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In 2014, Christa Ackroyd was made patron of Radio Aire's Cash for Kids charity.
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Christa Ackroyd switched to television in 1990 and became a co-anchor for Yorkshire Television's regional news programme Calendar, originally alongside Richard Whiteley, and later, Mike Morris.
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Christa Ackroyd presented her last Look North programme on 1 March 2013.
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Shipley MP Philip Davies called for the corporation to explain whether Christa Ackroyd was still being paid despite her ongoing absence.
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In July 2013, the BBC announced that Christa Ackroyd had been dismissed after what was considered to be an unspecified "breach of contract" and would not return to present Look North.
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Since her departure from the BBC, Christa Ackroyd has played some minor roles in television drama, including the Danish series Bedrag in 2016.
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Christa Ackroyd returned to ITV Yorkshire as a freelance journalist for Calendar, covering the Rotherham count at the 2015 general election.
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Christa Ackroyd is a columnist for the Yorkshire Post.
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Christa Ackroyd appears as an expert in 'serial killer's wives'for channel 5 and has appeared in other true crime series.
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In January 2022 Christa Ackroyd joined the team of regular contributors to Our Great Yorkshire Life, a 20 part-series for Channel 5.
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Christa Ackroyd visited Saltaire in Shipley and is to visit other well known places such as Haworth and York Minster.
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The judge in the case stressed Miss Christa Ackroyd had done nothing wrong, had acted honestly and had been 'encouraged' by the BBC to sign such a contract.