Felicity Evans is a

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journalist and broadcaster, who has worked as the Political Editor of BBC Wales since 2018. She comes from

Ebbw Vale Ebbw Vale (; cy, Glynebwy) is a town at the head of the valley formed by the Ebbw Fawr tributary of the Ebbw River in Wales. It is the largest town and the administrative centre of Blaenau Gwent county borough. The Ebbw Vale and Brynmawr con ...

, but was brought up in

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, and now lives in

Cardiff Cardiff (; cy, Caerdydd ) is the capital and largest city of Wales. It forms a principal area, officially known as the City and County of Cardiff ( cy, Dinas a Sir Caerdydd, links=no), and the city is the eleventh-largest in the United Kingd ...

. After studying law at the

University of Oxford , mottoeng = The Lord is my light , established = , endowment = £6.1 billion (including colleges) (2019) , budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20) , chancellor ...

, with the original intention of becoming a barrister, she began her career as a broadcast journalist on BBC Radio Wales, where she became presenter of the flagship morning news magazine programme ''Good Morning Wales'', alongside Oliver Hides with whom she had previously been a co-presenter on ''Good Evening Wales''. She later became the main presenter on the politics programme ''Dragon's Eye''. She moved on to present ''Week In Week Out'' and ''Eye on Wales'', and now appears regularly on the nightly news programme ''

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''. In 2019, Evans was named in fifth place on the WalesOnline "Pinc List" of influential LGBT+ people in Wales, having entered the list at number 25 in 2015.

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