Kelly-Ann Woodland
Kelly-Ann Woodland is a Scottish newsreader and journalist, best known as a main anchor of STV News at Six in Central Scotland.
Early life
Kelly-Ann Bishop was born on 5 November 1981 in Bonhill in the area of Vale of Leven, West Dunbartonshire. She has three siblings; Julie, Nikki and Brian. Woodland was educated at Jamestown Primary School and Vale of Leven Academy. She graduated from University of Glasgow in 2002 with an undergraduate degree in politics and sociology.Career
Career beginnings
While still at university Woodland had her first experience in the media industry as a researcher for STV's weekly politics programme Platform. After graduating, Woodland started work at now-defunct commercial radio station Castle Rock FM in Dumbarton as a news reporter and bulletin reader.She joined STV in 2003 as a news assistant. Woodland was quickly promoted to production journalist and then finally reporter after a few years. From 2010 Woodland, became the regular early morning presenter of STV's opt-out news bulletins for Daybreak and then Good Morning Britain. In recent years, Woodland has become one of STV's main reporters and the stand-in presenter for all of their news programmes including STV News at Six from Glasgow and Edinburgh and the current affairs programme Scotland Tonight.
STV ''News at Six'' anchor
In September 2018, STV relaunched their flagship 6pm news programme for the Central Belt of Scotland. The new format combined the existing Edinburgh and Glasgow programmes into one co-anchored programme that contained sections that contained opt-outs for the East and West regions, mixed with sections that were co-anchored from both locations with links being shared by both presenters. Woodland was chosen to anchor from the Edinburgh studio with John MacKay anchoring from the Glasgow studio.In October 2024, the programme reverted to a single-anchor format with Woodland presenting on Mondays and Tuesdays.