Angharad Mair

Angharad Mair (born 31 March 1960) in Welsh television presenter, previously the lead presenter on the nightly S4C Welsh language news programme, Heno and the BBC Wales news programme, Wales Today.

Biography

She was born in Carmarthen, South Wales, with her older sister and three younger brothers. Her first jobs were working in Tesco and The Ivy Bush hotel in Carmarthen.[1]

After training and working for BBC Wales, where she worked Welsh language programme Bilidowcar for children, Mair joined Llanelli-based independent television production company Tinopolis in 1991.[2] When Tinopolis produced both programs from Cardiff, for a time she presented both the English language BBC Wales news Wales Today from 18:30 to 19:00, as well as the Welsh S4C Wedi 7 from 19:00 to 19:30.[3] Mair still presents Wedi7, and is Executive Director for Tinopolis,[4] where by 2006 she held 2.86% of the shares.[5]

After a challenge from a colleague, Mair ran her first full marathon in New York city in 1991, in a time of 3:29:00. The amazing result for a beginner meant she kept training and entered the trials for the Great Britain athletics squad for the 1997 World Championships in Athens, Greece, where she came 23rd in the Women's Marathon in a time of 2:42:31.[6]

Mair wrote a column in Wales on Sunday newspaper. In December 2006 she commented on the break-up of the relationship her friend, ITV1 weather presenter Sian Lloyd,[7] against Lloyd's former partner Lembit Öpik - including suggesting that Montgomeryshire needed a new MP - drew much public criticism.[8][9]

Mair has two daughters with her husband Jonathan Cray,[10] a cameraman for Tinopolis. The family live in Llanbedr-y-fro in the Vale of Glamorgan.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 "Angharad Mair". aren.co.uk. Retrieved 2011-02-27.
  2. ↑ "TV presenter shares secrets of success after 3 decades in front of the camera". The Carmarthen Journal. 18 January 2012. Retrieved 2015-11-08.
  3. ↑ "Angharad Mair". TV Ark. Archived from the original on 31 March 2008. Retrieved 2008-05-09.
  4. ↑ "Angharad Mair". Tinopolis. Retrieved 2008-05-09.
  5. ↑ "Director Dealings - Tinopolis". Yahoo Finance. Retrieved 2008-05-09.
  6. ↑ Ian Wooldridge (1997-08-07). "The TV newsreader who ran a marathon and liked it so much that she raced in three more". Daily Mail. Retrieved 2008-05-09.
  7. ↑ Mair, Angharad (2006-12-24). "Out on a Lemb!". Wales on Sunday. Retrieved 2009-09-20.
  8. ↑ "Letters to the Editor". Media Wales. 2006-12-31. Archived from the original on 12 April 2008. Retrieved 2008-05-09.
  9. ↑ "Lembit revisited". Peter Black AM. 2006-12-24. Retrieved 2008-05-09.
  10. ↑ "Debate: Is maternity leave too long?". WalesOnline. 2 February 2011.

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