Chester -born TV news anchor So Rahman is a key member of the Al Jazeera team nominated for an Emmy award for the network’s coverage of the Nepalese earthquake in April 2015.

Al Jazeera was one of the first news outlets to report live on the 7.8 magnitude quake described as one of the worst to hit Nepal in decades, claiming more than 8,000 lives.

So, originally from Hoole , who was a familiar face on Granada Reports for more than 10 years, reported live with the news-gathering team in the capital city of Kathmandu, feeding through audio and visual reports as the situation unfolded.

The Emmy-nominated coverage focused heavily on the relief effort, the impact of the quake on remote areas of the country and the reaction from the Nepalese community living abroad.

So Rahman, from Hoole, covering the earthquake which caused devastation in Nepal in 2015.

So, a former pupil of Kingsway High School in Chester, who is Al Jazeera English senior correspondent, said: “I’ve covered many major news stories for Al Jazeera but witnessing the effects of an earthquake and its aftermath is a life experience I’m never going to forget. Yet every step of the way the whole team kept upper most in our minds that this is home to millions of people and their whole lives have been turned upside down, by personal bereavement, injury and financial ruin.

“For me, meeting orphans who managed to survive from their destroyed care home from the epicentre of the quake and consoling families sleeping out in the open bring home quite clearly how lucky some of us really are.”

So was the main news anchor in Kathmandu and while reporting the story of the Nepalese victims and survivors he also anchored the LIVE Special exactly seven days after the first quake. ‘Nepal In Ruins’ gave a harrowing overview of the events one week after the country’s worst natural disaster and is part of the Emmy nomination.

So Rahman and fellow Chester resident Lucy Meacock when they worked together on Granada Reports.

The coverage has been nominated for an Emmy by the International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. So, who is based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, studied film and television in Wrexham, North Wales and London before starting his TV career in 1992.

Earlier this year he delivered a talk at The Grosvenor Museum entitled ‘An Evening with So Rahman’ about his life in TV and the city where he grew up to raise funds for the museum and The Alzheimer’s Society because his late father suffered from the disease. He is due to give another talk at a similar fund-raising event for the society being held at M&S Bank’s headquarters on Chester Business Park in the near future.