Gordon Chree

{{Short description|Scottish reporter}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2017}} {{Use British English|date=May 2017}} {{Infobox presenter | name = Gordon Chree | image = | image_size = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = 10 December 1978 | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | show = ''[[STV News]]'' (East/West) | station = [[STV (TV channel)|STV]] | network = | timeslot = Varies | style = Reporter | country = Scotland | prevshow = ''[[Scotland Today]]'' (2007-2009); [[Talk 107]] (2006-2007) | parents = | spouse(s) = | partner = | children = | website = }} '''Gordon Chree''' (born 1978) is a Scottish reporter for ''[[STV News]]'' and occasional presenter on the East edition of ''STV News at Six'', and the online video blog ''[[The Real MacKay|Not The Real MacKay]]''.<ref>[http://video.stv.tv/bc/news-the-real-mackay-090309/ 'The Real MacKay': A Gordon of All Trades] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110728054147/http://video.stv.tv/bc/news-the-real-mackay-090309/ |date=2011-07-28 }}, stv.tv, 9 March 2009</ref> Chree was one of the live reporters at the [[2007 Glasgow International Airport attack|Glasgow Airport attack]] for STV, [[ITV News]], and CNN. <ref>[http://video.stv.tv/bc/news-blogs-020707blog_squeeze/ 'Not the Real MacKay': Glasgow terror attacks] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081010010810/http://video.stv.tv/bc/news-blogs-020707blog_squeeze/ |date=2008-10-10 }}, 2 July 2007</ref><ref>[http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0706/30/cnr.01.html CNN Newsroom transcript], CNN.com, 30 June 2007</ref> Prior to STV,<ref>[http://www.allmediascotland.com/articles/1079/28032007/talk_station_losing_trio_of_presenters Talk Station Losing Trio of Presenters] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081113132536/http://www.allmediascotland.com/articles/1079/28032007/talk_station_losing_trio_of_presenters |date=13 November 2008 }}, Allmediascotland, 28 March 2007</ref> Chree worked for several commercial radio stations, including the now-defunct Edinburgh station [[Talk 107]].<ref>[http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?storyCode=33210&sectioncode=1 ‘Some people will never leave the BBC — we’ll have everyone else’] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110616183220/http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?storyCode=33210&sectioncode=1 |date=16 June 2011 }}, Press Gazette, 10 February 2006</ref>

Gordon is a regular at parkrun. In 2023-24 he became the first person to complete all Scottish parkruns in sequence (69 different parkruns in a row).<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.northern-scot.co.uk/news/remarkable-69-consecutive-parkruns-on-the-horizon-345242/ | title=Remarkable 69 consecutive parkruns on the horizon | date=16 March 2024 }}</ref> His sequence of consecutive different parkruns sits at 89 (as of 10 August 2024).

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