Complex sentence: Mike Neville's roots lay in North East theatre, but the launch of Tyne Tees Television in 1959 offered a new opportunity and he began work as a young reporter on the fledgling station in 1962.
Split into simpler sentences: Mike Neville's roots lay in North East theatre, but the launch of Tyne Tees Television in 1959 offered a new opportunity. Neville began work as a young reporter on the fledgling station in 1962.