She is best known for her work in the North West of England as a main anchor of the ITV regional news programme, Granada Reports between 1988 and 2024.
After returning to the United Kingdom, she attended the independent Upper Chine School in Shanklin on the Isle of Wight.
[1] She went on to work with BBC Radio Newcastle, before switching to television in 1984, joining the Tyne Tees newsroom as a reporter, and later, presenter of the regional news programme Northern Life.
In 2007, she joined ITN as a cover presenter for various ITV News programmes until August 2009, before returning for a second stint between July 2011 and 2015.
[8] St Helens based comedy folk band the Lancashire Hotpots included a song about Meacock on their fifth album Achtung Gravy.