Anne Leuchars
{{Short description|Broadcaster and journalist}}
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Anne Leuchars is a former broadcaster, journalist and news reader who is best known for presenting for ITV News and BBC Radio Newcastle.
Life and career
Leuchars has worked at HTV West in Bristol, Border TV in Carlisle, Central TV in Nottingham, and also spent 10 years in London with ITN as a newsreader and reporter.{{cite news|last1=|first1=|date=11 March 2009|title=TV Whirl - ITN News|work=TV Whirl|url=https://www.tvwhirl.co.uk/news/itv/itn-news-pre-1999/|accessdate=28 September 2009}}
She then spent five years as information officer with Northumberland National Park before joining the BBC in Newcastle.{{cite news|last1=|first1=|date=11 March 2009|title=BBC - Jon and Anne|work=BBC|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/wear/hi/tv_and_radio/newsid_8185000/8185234.stm|accessdate=28 September 2009}}
Leuchars presented the afternoon news programme alongside Jon Harle on BBC Radio Newcastle until 2016.{{cite news|last1=|first1=|date=11 March 2009|title=BBC - Anne Leuchars|work=BBC|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/wear/hi/tv_and_radio/newsid_8185000/8185234.stm|accessdate=28 September 2009}}
In 2015, Leuchars released a walking book on hiking with her friend Debby Waldron.{{cite news|last1=Henderson|first1=Tony|date=11 March 2009|title=Northumberland friends release walking book for 'tortoise and hare' hikers|work=BBC|url=https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/northumberland-friends-release-walking-book-9854671|accessdate=28 September 2015}}
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Category:Year of birth missing (living people)
Category:British reporters and correspondents
Category:BBC newsreaders and journalists
Category:ITN newsreaders and journalists
Category:English television talk show hosts
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