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Adie in 2014. Adie was born in Whitley Bay, Northumberland. [3] She was adopted as a baby by a Sunderland pharmacist and his wife, John and Maud Adie, [4] and grew up there. Her birth parents were Irish Catholics and she made contact with her birth family in 1993, establishing a loving relationship lasting more than 20 years with her birth mother 'Babe' Dunnet.
She wrote that her recovery was partly down to time spent outdoors: she is a cold-water swimmer, and in 2019 ran the London Marathon for Refuge, raising £37,000 for the charity. Hardman began a relationship with the politician John Woodcock in summer 2016. [21] [22] In November 2019, Woodcock announced he and Hardman were expecting a child. [23]
Marie Colvin was born in Astoria, Queens, New York, and grew up in East Norwich in the town of Oyster Bay, Nassau County, on Long Island.Her father, William J. Colvin, was a Marine Corps veteran of WWII and an English teacher in New York City public schools.
Azed is a crossword which appears every Sunday in The Observer newspaper. Since it first appeared in March 1972, every puzzle has been composed by Jonathan Crowther who also judges the monthly clue-writing competition. [1] The pseudonym Azed is a reversal of (Fray Diego de) Deza, a Spanish inquisitor general.
Ivins was born in Monterey, California, and raised in Houston, Texas.Her father, James Ivins, known as "General Jim" because of his rigid authoritarianism (or sometimes "Admiral Jim" for his love of sailing), was an oil and gas executive, and the family lived in Houston's affluent River Oaks neighborhood. [2]
In opinion pieces for the Observer, she has criticised the House of Lords. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] In February 2023, a weekly column from Bennett in The Observer led to fellow Observer columnist James Wong resigning his own column and writing to the editorial department and tweeting to describe the column by Bennett as "completely unacceptable". [ 6 ]
Deosthalee was commissioned into the Indian Navy in 2009. A Naval air observer, she served on the P-8I, a maritime reconnaissance aircraft. She later became the first female Observer on the Tupolev Tu-142. [1] She served as the First Lieutenant of the Kolkata-class destroyer INS Chennai (D65). [2]
Christa Ackroyd – main presenter on Look North from 2001 until 2013. She had previously been a presenter on Yorkshire Television's Calendar during the 1990s.; Kate Adie – chief news correspondent for BBC News during which time she became well known for reporting from war zones around the world – her first major assignment was reporting on the Iranian embassy siege in London in 1980.