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'''Howard Stableford''' was a British television and radio presenter, who after presenting ''Tomorrow's World''<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20121005235636/http://www.metro.co.uk/showbiz/interviews/38-howard-stableford (Archive link) Metro - Howard Stableford.]</ref> alongside the likes of [[Peter Macann]], enjoyed a brief foray in the world of automotive journalism from 1998 until 2001.

==Life and career==
Born in 1959<ref>[https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba1bb342b BFI - Howard Stableford.]</ref> in Poynton, Cheshire, Howard Stableford would grow up in Preston, Lancashire, where he attended Hutton Grammar School one year below future [[Formula 1]] and Le Mans car designer Peter Elleray. He would read for a degree in Geography at Durham University, where he was a member of the illustrious University College, graduating<ref>[https://reed.dur.ac.uk/xtf/view?docId=bookreader/DU_Gazettes/DUGazette25_2/dg252METS.xml;query=howard%20stableford;brand=default#page/50/mode/2up Durham University Gazette - Class II, Division II.]</ref> in 1980. Upon graduating, he would join the [[BBC]] at Radio Lancashire before hosting a daily show at Radio Northampton upon its launch in 1982. From there, he moved into children's television, presenting programmes such as ''Puzzle Trail''<ref>[https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/0f984e9584a84766803b64b83a64ff31 BBC Genome - ''Puzzle Trail''. (12th September, 1983)]</ref> and ''Beat The Teacher''<ref>[https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/66b83a261bd84ec5babd93cbfb0ac22c BBC Genome - ''Beat The Teacher''. (24th September, 1984)]</ref>, as well as some editions of ''Newsround''<ref>[http://www.ukgameshows.com/ukgs/Howard_Stableford UKGameshows - Howard Stableford.]</ref> in then-lead host John Craven's absence, before presenting ''Tomorrow's World'' from 1985 until 1997. He would move to Colorado and marry his wife Lizanne, with whom he would have two daughters<ref>[https://www.topfoto.co.uk/asset/439637/ Topfoto - Photo of Howard Stableford with his family in February 1997.]</ref> in the 1990s.

With a vested interest in [[Harley-Davidson]] motorcycles, Stableford would join the Granada network following the conclusion of his role on ''Tomorrow's World'', and present ''[[Motor Week (UK)|Motor Week]]'' for its digitally-based male interest channel [[Men & Motors]]. He would present ''Motor Week'' for a period of three years, from January 1998 until February 2001, after which point he left the programme following the conclusion of its [[Motor Week (UK)/Series 7|seventh series]]. Footage he had previously recorded for ''Motor Week'' would later be adapted and re-used in other Men & Motors programmes such as ''Car File''.

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