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Noel Thompson is a Northern Irish news journalist with BBC Northern Ireland. He was part of the presenting team for BBC Radio Ulster's flagship morning programme Good Morning Ulster. Noel Thompson's profile BBC Newsline, 15 April 2008
In addition to his broadcasting career at BBC Northern Ireland, Thompson has presented Newsnight and BBC Breakfast Breakfast Presenters - Noel Thompson BBC News, 3 November 2008 and, for a period, occasionally guest presented on BBC News Channel and BBC News' politics and arts interview programme HARDtalk.
Thompson was awarded Royal Television Society Regional TV Presenter of the Year for two consecutive years: 1997 Programme Award Winners 1997 Royal Television Society and 1998. Programme Award Winners 1998 Royal Television Society He was also nominated in the same category in 1999. Programme Award Winners 1999 Royal Television Society In 2007, Thompson received an Award of Distinction from Belfast Metropolitan College for his services to journalism. It was announced in 2019 that Thompson would retire from the corporation in 2020 along with three other BBC presenters.
Prior to joining the BBC, Thompson worked in a bar at the Europa Hotel in Belfast, and he also managed his brother's restaurant in the West Indies.
He sings baritone with the Belfast Philharmonic and has regularly performed at many classical concerts with the august choir alongside the Ulster Orchestra. He is a committed and highly experienced wildlife photographer and mountain walker.
Thompson is married to Sharon and has two children, Patrick and Matthew, the latter a reporter for LBC.
Personal life
Thompson studied at Campbell College in Belfast and St Catharine's College, Cambridge, reading MML (French and German), then Social and Political Sciences.
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