Marverine Cole is a British radio and television presenter and news reporter from

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, England. Of Jamaican descent, she made history as one of the ten Black British women to have ever presented national and international news bulletins in the UK during the last 40 years. Peers amongst others include Moira Stuart, Gillian Joseph,

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, Sharon Grey, Joyce Ohaja, Claudia-Liza Vanderpuije,

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, and

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in Birmingham, and also

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and

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(an African-focused news channel) in London. Joining

, she presented the World News and Business Report overnight slot, reporting on breaking news stories like the Mumbai Terror attacks. She is also said to be the first Black female presenter on TV shopping channel

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during their twenty year history when she joined them in 2013. She studied for a degree in

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De Montfort University De Montfort University Leicester (DMU) is a public university in the city of Leicester, England. It was established in accordance with the Further and Higher Education Act in 1992 as a degree awarding body. The name De Montfort University was tak ...

(graduating in 1993), and a

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at the

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. Working in radio, she produced Ladies with Lyrics a documentary about UK female rappers for

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, and a documentary for

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about female gambling addicts. In 2019, she won the award of Journalist of the Year at the Mind Media Awards in 2019 for another

documentary about mental health, Black Girls Don't Cry. She is Britain's first Black female beer sommelier (accredited by the UK Beer and Cider Academy), often appears on TV doing live beer tastings for ITV's ''Love Your Weekend'' and '' This Morning''. She is a beer podcaster and appears as a beer expert in the media - including a special edition of ''

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'', during Channel 4's Black to Front Day. She is the beer columnist for BBC Good Food magazine and online. In 2021, she became a stand-in presenter for Classic FM, and also as a regular friend on the popular Channel 4 daytime show,

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. Rumours are that she is also the voice heard across British train stations nationwide, asking the general public to wear a face mask. She is a board member of

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, and The Student View. She is also an ambassador for West Midlands screen body, Create Central.

References

External links

Knight Ayton ManagementBBC Good Food online - Beer contentCreate Central ChampionBirmingham Royal Ballet
{{DEFAULTSORT:Cole, Marverine Year of birth missing (living people) Living people People from Birmingham, West Midlands Alumni of Birmingham City University Alumni of De Montfort University BBC newsreaders and journalists English radio presenters Sky News newsreaders and journalists Black British television personalities English people of Jamaican descent