BBC taps Collard as environment correspondent

Sally Bowman Collard is now an environment correspondent at BBC, reporting on environmental and rural affairs for TV, online and radio.

Previously, she held the post of senior news editor, current affairs.

Bowman is a veteran BBC journalist, having been with the network for more than 20 years. She has also served as a content editor, an education/family correspondent and as a TV output editor at BBC.

She was also a reporter/presenter at ITV Central, ITV Border, ITV Granada, Asia Television and Hong Kong TVB-Pearl.

Collard is a graduate of the University of the West of England.