Denise Bernadette Nurse (born 8 July 1976) is a British

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and

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Education

Denise Nurse studied

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and graduated from the

University of Liverpool , mottoeng = These days of peace foster learning , established = 1881 – University College Liverpool1884 – affiliated to the federal Victoria Universityhttp://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukla/2004/4 University of Manchester Act 200 ...

in 1997. She then studied at

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for her professional degrees.

Professional career

Denise Nurse was an assistant solicitor for Charles Russell LLP from 1998 and qualified in 2000. As a

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she worked under the title of inhouse counsel for

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from 2001. In 2007, she established alternative law firm Halebury with her business partner Janvi Patel. Denise is a regular speaker at industry events talking about entrepreneurship, flexible working and law firm structures. Denise Nurse was a trustee of Futureversity from 2009 to 2012. She was later appointed as a board member on Practical Law's In-house Consultation Board alongside General Counsel from British Gas, Vodafone, Lloyds Banking Group, Centerparcs, Canada Life, Barclays, Carillion, Rentokil Initial, and VPS Group.

Broadcasting career

While working for BSkyB, Nurse won a Sky Talent competition set up by

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to discover fresh presenting talent. Out of thousands of Sky employees her peers voted her the best presenter. She made her debut in March 2005 on Sky Weather and also presented forecasts for Channel 5 until February 2012. She has presented for

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from the

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and other exotic locations. In 2008 she became a presenter on BBC's ''

Escape to the Country ''Escape to the Country'' is a British daytime television reality property-buying/real estate programme, created by Talkback Thames, which premieres on network BBC One, produced by John Comerford and is repeated on BBC Two. It first aired on 1 ...

''. She has also advised on consumer and legal issues on the BBC's ''

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''.

Personal life

In an interview in September 2016, Nurse stated she got married in 2015, and had a family with two stepchildren. She halted her broadcasting career since she had a son.

References

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* 1967 births Living people English television presenters Sky News weather forecasters Black British television personalities English solicitors Television personalities from London Alumni of the University of Liverpool Alumni of The University of Law English people of Jamaican descent {{UK-tv-bio-stub