She blazed a trail for other female breakfast-time weather forecasters such as Trish Williamson and Ulrika Jonsson, who also branched out
She blazed a trail for other female breakfast-time weather forecasters such as Trish Williamson and Ulrika Jonsson, who also branched out
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Kirkwood presented her final ever weather report in a ‘BBC Breakfast’ episode featuring video tributes from Keir Starmer and…
There were complaints that she turned the show into ‘Feminist’s Hour’; after she left she claimed she had been ‘cancelled’ for…
She also starred in Alan Bennett's TV monologues and played the BBC's amateur sleuth Hetty Wainthropp.
Family pays tribute to BBC Weather presenter with ‘gift for gentle clarity’
Star had suffered from Alzheimer’s in her final years, family statement says
