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Sally Turton Hardcastle (22 April 1945 – 10 November 2014) was a journalist and radio presenter, best known for presenting ''
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. She was born in London. Her father was William Hardcastle, a British news broadcaster. She spent her early years in
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, where her father was a correspondent for
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. In the early 1950s the family returned to Britain, where her father became editor of the '' Daily Mail''. She and her sister attended St Philomena's Convent School. After her parents' marriage broke down, she and her siblings moved with their mother to
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. She attended Cornwall Technical College, where she gained her A-levels.Sally Hardcastle obituary
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to live with her father, and studied journalism, eventually joining the '' Sunday Express'' as a reporter. Years later, she worked briefly with the '' New York Tribune''.


Death

She died in 2014, aged 69, from undisclosed causes. She was unmarried.


References

1945 births 2014 deaths BBC newsreaders and journalists Journalists from London British women television journalists British women radio presenters {{UK-journalist-stub