David Garmston

{{Short description|English journalist}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} '''David Frederick Garmston''' (born June 1958)<ref>{{Cite web |title=David Frederick GARMSTON personal appointments - Find and update company information - GOV.UK |url=https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/officers/SUoOJVVjO9IoCnfwX8uzR6XiQp0/appointments |access-date=2026-04-05 |website=find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk |language=en}}</ref> is an English journalist who currently works as a presenter on ''BBC Points West'' and ''Sunday Politics West.'' He has worked in television in the West Country for nearly four decades.

== Biography == Garmston was born in Bristol and attended Cotham Grammar School.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-14510995_ITM|title=Look at why we loves Bristol.|date=17 November 2004|work=AccessMyLibrary - Europe Intelligence Wire (From Bristol Evening Post)|publisher=Gale|accessdate=2010-06-15}}</ref> He began his career appearing in several films in Bristol and the West, whilst training as a journalist with the weekly ''Sevenoaks Chronicle'' and the evening newspaper, ''The Gloucestershire Echo''. Once qualified by the NCTJ (coming joint top in the UK) he joined the new independent radio station for Bristol and Bath, ''Radio West''.

Garmston has, since 1985, been the male anchor on ''BBC Points West'', working alongside Alex Lovell, Amanda Parr and Imogen Sellers. On Sundays, he presents the regional opt-out of ''Sunday Politics'', ''Sunday Politics West.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/england/pointswest/content/presenters/garmston/garmston.shtml|title=David Garmston|publisher=BBC|accessdate=14 March 2010}} </ref>''

Garmston was married with two children and lives in central Bristol.<ref>{{Cite web |title=BBC Online - England - Points West - Presenter - David Garmston |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/england/pointswest/content/presenters/garmston/garmston.shtml |access-date=2023-05-13 |website=www.bbc.co.uk}}</ref> In 2021, Garmston caught legionnaires' disease whilst on holiday with his family in Mallorca: when he arrived back home, he was taken to the Bristol Royal Infirmary, where he was put in intensive care for a week.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Roig |first=Estel Farell |date=2021-09-22 |title=BBC presenter ended up in ICU with rare disease after holiday |url=https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/somerset-news/bbc-points-wests-david-garmston-5955491 |access-date=2023-05-13 |website=SomersetLive |language=en}}</ref>

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