She started at United Arab Emirates Television. She lived for four years in the Gulf, moving to Dubai.
BBC She joined
Spotlight, for one week, in July 1983, aged 27, replacing
Fern Britton, who had moved to present
BBC Breakfast. Carpenter returned to
Spotlight in the autumn of 1983. In the summer of 1983, she presented
Points West, with Jane Wales, and returned to
Points West in November 1983 for six months. She presented the BBC
Holiday programme from 1984 into the 1990s, and
Newsview on BBC2. She worked as a newsreader on
Breakfast Time for eighteen months from 1985 until November 1986. She later joined ITN, presenting many of their main bulletins, usually during the daytime and the early evening news. ==References==