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Pete Clifton (b. 1962) is the head of BBC News Interactive.
He assumed the role in October 2005 following Richard Deverell's move to CBBC. He previously spent two years as editor following the departure of Editor-in-chief Mike Smartt in 2004. The News Interactive department includes BBC News Online, the BBC News website; the Ceefax teletext service; the digital text service; On This Day; the Action Network and a variety of news services to mobile phones and other mobile devices.
He also spent two years on loan to BBC Sport, where he set up the BBC Sport website in 2000.
Clifton was previously the editor of Ceefax, and before joining the BBC was a news and sports reporter at the Chronicle and Echo in Northampton, a sports journalist at the Exchange Telegraph national news agency, chief sports sub at the Press Association (PA) and editor of the PA's Teletext service.
His successor as Editor of News Interactive was named on December 2, 2005 as Steve Herrmann .
Pete has a particular fondness for anthropomorphic turtles.