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Christopher George Vacher (born 3 December 1951) is a British television presenter, best known as a long-serving main anchor of BBC West's flagship regional news programme Points West for 28 years.
Brought up near Axminster on the Somerset-Devon border, Vacher attended Sherborne School and the Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth (in the same year as Prince Charles) before joining the Royal Navy in 1969 as a seaman officer.[1][2]
Vacher joined the BBC in 1981 working for Radio Bristol before becoming a freelance reporter and newsreader for Points West a year later.[1] He joined the main presenting team in 1983 and holds the record as the programme's longest serving main presenter. Vacher, a past winner of the Royal Television Society's 'Regional TV Personality of the Year in the West' award,[1] has also worked on various documentary specials as part of the regional current affairs series Close Up West.[1]
Vacher presented Points West for the final time on Friday 9 December 2011.[3][4] Vacher was then the longest-serving regional presenter who had worked for the BBC.[5]
Vacher is married and has two sons from his first marriage to Tilly.
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