Angharad Mair
Angharad Mair (born 31 March 1960)[citation needed] 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]
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External links
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- Articles with unsourced statements from November 2015
- 1960 births
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- People from Carmarthen
- Welsh long-distance runners
- Welsh marathon runners
- Female marathon runners
- Female long-distance runners
- Welsh sportswomen
- British female athletes
- World Championships in Athletics athletes for Great Britain
- Welsh journalists
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- Welsh-language television presenters
- BBC newsreaders and journalists
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