Sarah Heaney

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Sarah Heaney (b. 1970) is a Scottish television presenter. She started her TV career with Live TV as a news reporter. Sarah then went on to front S2 Live on the now defunct SMG digital channel S2. The BBC approached Sarah about work but STV Central offered Sarah one of the main presenters jobs to front the news programme, Scotland Today.

Having worked on several programmes, including Crime Fighters for ITV, and GMTV, Sarah has become one of the most popular and flexible presenters in Scotland. In 2006, due to mass redundancies at STV, Heaney took voluntary redundancy, and left Scotland Today in March.

Sarah returned to STV in September 2006 to host Big Hearts, Big Night. She returned again in March 2008 as a guest for the station's online video blog, The Real MacKay.

Sarah lives in London with her husband Ed Adams who is a jewellery designer. She gave birth to their first child, son Edward William Adams, in the summer of 2006[1]. They are expecting their second child in May [2].

Heaney recently fronted a new prime-time crime programme with news reader Mark Austin for ITV. Manhunt - Solving Britain's Crimes is a live 90 minute prgramme where Heaney and Austin appeal to the public for information on the UK's most wanted criminals.

In 2008, Sarah, along with Mark Durden-Smith hosted Wish You Were Here...? Now & Then, a 25-part series where the hosts revisit destinations, originally visited by Judith Chalmers (Mark's mother) and other WYWH? presenters in the original 1974 series, to see how much they have changed. The series has been re-commissioned.