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Laurie Mayer is a British journalist who had a 22-year career with the
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on radio and across most television news programmes. His last main presenting role was of
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, until he resigned in 2002, citing a culture of
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at the
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in the South East News department. Mayer's radio career started on
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in 1971, mainly presenting the station's breakfast show "Rush Hour". Between 1973 and 1979, he was one of the presenters on the
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news programme
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. Mayer was a presenter of the BBC's ''
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'', '' Six O'Clock News'' and ''
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'' programme (now known as ''Breakfast''), before leaving for
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in the early 1990s. He went on to become the press spokesman for the owner of
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, before returning to the BBC as the main presenter of ''
South East Today ''BBC South East Today'' is the BBC South East regional television news programme, serving Kent, East Sussex, part of West Sussex and a small part of Surrey. Prior to its launch on 3 September 2001, most of the viewers in the region received ''N ...
''.


Personal life

Mayer got engaged to his wife Jill Hanson in 1971.


References

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