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Dianne Clare Oxberry (13 August 1967 – 10 January 2019) was an English broadcaster and meteorologist, best known as a long-serving TV and radio presenter for BBC North West. She presented weather forecasts for the regional news programme North West Tonight for 23 years until her death in 2019.
After a year he joined the BBC Weather Centre, in April 1998, becoming a household name appearing regularly on BBC News, BBC World News, BBC Red Button, BBC Radio 2, BBC Radio 5 Live and BBC Radio 4, where he was a regular forecaster on the Today programme. He previously forecast on the BBC News at Ten, the BBC News at Six and the BBC News at ...
McCaskill worked as a motivational speaker, and appeared on the BBC Television shows MasterChef and on Have I Got News for You, as well as in a number of TV advertisements. He also participated in the first series of Celebrity Fit Club in 2002. In 2006, he co-wrote the book Frozen in Time, about Britain's worst ever winters, with Paul Hudson ...
Maureen Flavin was born in Knockanure, [1] in County Kerry, on 3 June 1923, [2] [3] [4] her birth was registered as Mary Christine. She passed her secondary school examinations and, on reaching the age of 18, found herself looking for employment.
The first BBC weather forecast was a shipping forecast, broadcast on the radio on behalf of the Met Office on 14 November 1922, and the first daily weather forecast was broadcast on 26 March 1923. In 1936, the BBC experimented with the world's first televised weather maps, brought into practice in 1949 after World War II. The map filled the ...
For much of its broadcast day, BBC Radio Shetland rebroadcasts the output of BBC Radio Scotland.It opts out of this network for three regular slots: Good Evening Shetland, a 30-minute local news and magazine programme which includes current affairs, weather, fishing reports and public debate, broadcast Mon-Fri;
Pope John Paul II was the subject of three premature obituaries.. A prematurely reported obituary is an obituary of someone who was still alive at the time of publication. . Examples include that of inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel, whose premature obituary condemning him as a "merchant of death" for creating military explosives may have prompted him to create the Nobel Prize; [1 ...
On his return, King was assigned to BBC Weather in August 2008, [2] presenting across the entire BBC News output, as well as on BBC World. He still undertakes assignments for the RAF, and was deployed to Camp Bastion, Afghanistan in 2010. King's hobbies include snowboarding and wakeboarding.