Rose Neill, a BBC presenter who worked for UTV from 1977 was invited to join the BBC in 1985 as a newsreader and anchor on its main evening bulletin
"Inside Ulster" and its other news bulletins, was born in Newtownards, brought up in Bangor and educated at Mount School in York.
Another well known person with a Bangor connection is the author now known as Bateman who has written many books as
Colin Bateman. Like Rose Neill, Bateman was born in Newtownards but as he says he quickly escaped to Bangor. He was educated at Ballyholme Primary School and Bangor Grammar School. In 1979, when he left school he joined the staff of the County Down Spectator as a cub reporter.