Nicholas David Ross was born on 7 August 1947 and is a British radio and television presenter.
30 Facts About Nick Ross
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Nick Ross has subsequently filmed a series for BBC One called The Truth About Crime and has made documentaries for BBC Radio 4.
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Nick Ross is chairman, president, trustee or patron of a number of charities including the National Fire Chiefs Council, and is President of the British Security Industries Association.
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Nick Ross graduated with a BA, later became a Doctor of the university and he was deputy president of the Student Union and a leader of the student civil rights movement in 1968 and 1969.
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Nick Ross started in journalism by reporting on the violence in Belfast for BBC Northern Ireland.
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Nick Ross began working part-time for the BBC in Northern Ireland while still a student and reported on the violence as the Troubles became acute.
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Nick Ross returned to London and presented British radio programmes such as Radio 4's The World at One, PM and The World Tonight, and moved to TV in 1979 as a reporter for Man Alive on BBC Two.
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Nick Ross made several documentaries in a brief stint as a director and producer.
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Nick Ross presented a law series Out of Court in this period as well as large-scale studio debates.
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Nick Ross was on the presenting team of a short-lived early-evening news programme Sixty Minutes which began in 1983, and was intended as a replacement for Nationwide, but proved an unwieldy format.
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Nick Ross resigned in 1997, but received an award as best radio presenter of the year.
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Nick Ross presented A Week in Politics on Channel 4, then moved to cover BBC Two's live broadcasts of parliament in Westminster with Nick Ross.
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Nick Ross was used in a variety of BBC formats including chat shows, travel programmes and debates, but was most at home in live studios, often orchestrating debates.
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In 2000 Nick Ross presented a general knowledge quiz called The Syndicate, aired on BBC 1 which pitted two teams across three rounds on general knowledge.
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In late 2007, Nick Ross left Crimewatch, soon followed by his co-presenter Fiona Bruce.
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Nick Ross spent a year creating a major BBC One series The Truth About Crime, which aired in mid-2009 and explained the fall in crime rates and how offending can be reduced further.
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Nick Ross has since been making other TV shows, such as Secrets of the Crime Museum and science programmes for BBC Radio 4 including an acclaimed re-examination of the Chernobyl disaster Fallout: the Legacy of Chernobyl.
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Nick Ross's written journalism has included a re-examination of the Air France Flight 447 air crash that provoked controversy on both sides of the Atlantic.
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Nick Ross was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2021 Birthday Honours for services to broadcasting, charity and crime prevention.
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Away from broadcasting Nick Ross has a wide range of philanthropic involvements, centred on medical ethics as well as promoting science and evidence-led health-care.
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Nick Ross has played a leading role in social action campaigns, most notably crime prevention, road safety and fire safety.
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Nick Ross coined the term Crime Science to promote a practical, multidisciplinary and outcome-focused approach to crime reduction.
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Nick Ross is chairman of the board of the institute, a Visiting Professor, and an Honorary Fellow of University College London, as well as an Honorary Fellow of the Academy of Experimental Criminologists.
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Nick Ross has written several books including Crime, how to solve it and why so much of what we're told is wrong, and is President of the British Security Industries Association.
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Nick Ross has served on several government committees.
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Nick Ross described himself as a 'sceptic' but 'not a cynic' and that 'pseudomedicine should be exposed for what it is'.
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Nick Ross is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, and of the Royal College of Surgeons, a Life Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine and a non-executive director of Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust.
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Nick Ross has been a member of the Committee on Public Understanding of Science, chairman of the Royal Society Prizes for Science Books, Guest Director of the Cheltenham Science Festival, chairman of the National Road Safety Committee of RoSPA and President of the London Road Safety Council, and an affiliate of the James Lind Alliance.
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Nick Ross is Chairman of the Wales Cancer Bank Advisory Board, a member of the ethics committee of UK Biobank, president of several charities including HealthSense, and a Trustee of Crimestoppers and of the UK Stem Cell Foundation.
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Nick Ross has campaigned for sprinklers in social housing, chaired fire sector summits, lobbied ministers and was a critic of 'complacency' that led to mass fatalities in the Lakanal House and Grenfell Tower fires in London.