He worked at the Preston Guardian while living there.[130] Nick Park, animator and creator of Wallace and Gromit was born in Preston. In September 2007, Preston City Council announced that it would be raising £100,000 to build a bronze statue of the two characters[131] Robert W. Service, poet and writer associated with the Yukon Gold Rush, was born in Preston and lived for a time on Winckley Street in the city centre. There is a Blue Plaque commemorating him on Christian Road, near the railway station[132] Ranvir Singh, TV presenter and newsreader, born in Preston Howard Stableford, Radio and TV broadcaster, former presenter of the BBC's "Tomorrow's World" Francis Thompson, Victorian poet and ascetic, born in Winckley Street and has a memorial plaque there[133] Steve Walsh, Leicester City footballer, hails from the Preston suburb of Fulwood