Francis Collings
Francis Collings is a journalist working as a TV News correspondent. Formerly with the BBC, is now with TRT World in Istanbul. Whilst at the BBC he presented on the BBC News channel, and on BBC World News. He also presented on BBC One news bulletins as well as BBC Breakfast. He has experience of covering events both sporting and political, including football World cups, Olympics, Paralympics, and Wimbledon Tennis. He has also reported on court cases at Royal Courts of Justice in London. Prior to the BBC he worked for Talk Radio UK, Independent Radio News, Radio  TV Hong Kong, LBC, the BBC World Service and BBC Radios 1, 2, 4 and 5. He has also written articles for the national press in the United Kingdom including the Scotsman, the Guardian and the London Evening Standard. He is much travelled having lived and worked in nine countries including Belize, Germany, Cyprus, Spain, and Syria. He was based in the Syrian capital of Damascus whilst studying Arabic and Middle East politics at close hand, and was there when the conflict began in 2011. He is now the Europe correspondent for TRT World