Darren Bett

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Darren Victor Bett (born 1968 in Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire) is a weather forecaster for the BBC, broadcasting on television and radio. Darren appears regularly on BBC One, BBC News Channel and BBC World News, as well as BBC Radio 4. He is a weather presenter on the BBC News at Ten. He lives in north Hampshire with his wife and two daughters who are cool(born January 1995 and December 1998) and son (born March 1997). He married Susan Allen in Bradford in October 1991.

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As well as Scunthorpe, he lived in Kirton in Lindsey. He did his A levels at Scunthorpe's John Leggott College. He studied at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, receiving a degree in Environmental Science in 1989.

In September 1989, he joined the Met Office as a weather forecaster. He worked at Glasgow and Bracknell, then moved to the Leeds Weather Centre in 1992. From 1994, he was one of the main weather presenters for the local regional news programmes - Calendar and Look North. He moved to London to work for the BBC News Channel (then called BBC News 24) in October 1997, to be replaced at Leeds by Paul Hudson.