Beccy Barr (Meehan) Husband, Age, Married, Wiki, Partner, Height, BBC

Name Beccy Barr (Also known as Beccy Meehan)

Age / How old / Birthday / Date of Birth / DOB As of 2024, she is around 46 years old.

Wedding & Marriage / Husband / Engaged / Fiance / Partner Divorced. Check the full bio for relationship details.

Wikipedia Biography / Profile Background

Introduction :

Beccy Barr (earlier also known as Beccy Meehan) is a journalist and newscaster for BBC North West Tonight. She is originally from Lancashire, England.

Personal Life : Parents, Family and Education

Beccy was raised in Lancashire and attended the Bowerham Primary School before going to Lancaster Girls Grammar School.
Little publicly available information about her family. Her parents live not far away from Beccy in Lancashire.
She has a sister in Australia.

During her early years, she was a Girl Guide & has double row of badges on one arm and a single row on the other. She became a Girl Guide leader when she went to London to further studies.
She holds a bachelor degree in government and politics from the London School of Economics and Political Science.
She later did a postgraduate diploma in newspaper journalism from City University.

Beccy is divorced. Since her divorce, she has reverted to her maiden name Barr for all correspondences relating to her.
She has a daughter named Hannah, born around the year 2010. Beccy & her ex-husband shares child duties amongst them.

Work, Career, Salary and Net Worth :

Soon after completing her diploma, Beccy began work at Blackpool Citizen as a reporter. She was there for less than a year.
She then headed to Centaur Communications as a reporter, working in the money marketing department.
In 2003, Beccy made the move to Bloomberg News in London as a General Assignment Reporter.

She first appeared on TV after changing her role to the European Transport reporter in Bloomberg.
In 2005, Beccy was transferred to New York to report on technological news in Bloomberg. There she covered major corporations like Microsoft, IBM and Motorola.
She also did her first documentary interview with Virgin Airlines founder Richard Branson.

She moved back to London to become a full-time anchor for Bloomberg TV, reporting on the European market.
In late 2007, Beccy joined CNBC as a presenter for business news. She was there for five years, being the face for programmes such asCapital Connection, Squawk Box Europe, Worldwide Exchange and European Closing Bell.
She was since then employed by the BBC, anchoring the channel’s nightly regional news programme. As part of her job scope, Beccy often appears on other BBC-affiliations such as BBC Radio Lancashire’s Breakfast Programme, BBC Radio 5 Live and BBC Inside Out.

In July 2019, Barr announced that she will be quitting the world of broadcasting to become a full-time firefighter.

Interesting Facts, Height and Trivia :

Beccy Barr Height : Standing at 6 feet 2 inches in height, she is quite tall.

Her unabbreviated first name is Rebecca.
One of her closest friend is a policewoman in Manchester.
A gifted athlete, she is also a finisher of Ironman UK 2015. She is a member of the Lancashire Triathlon Club.

She played rugby on top of Mount Kilimanjaro in 2015 to raise money for the Steve Prescott Foundation.
She is an ambassador for the Girl Guides in the North West.