Triona Holden is an author, artist, journalist, former BBC presenter and correspondent. Holden began her career in 1976, aged 17, as a journalist at the ''

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'' newspaper, eventually becoming their assistant crime reporter. Her first major story was

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, the Yorkshire Ripper. Triona at home

She briefly worked as a broadcast journalist for Mercia Sound in Coventry, then a freelancer for

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in London, before joining the

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in 1982. She started on BBC Radio, before moving to television. Working as a news presenter and reporter, she covered the

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of 1984-85. She was later to write ''Queen Coal: Women of the Miners'', published in 2005, derived from her experiences covering the strike. She was the youngest female national news reporter and the youngest person to present the ''

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; presented the ''Six O'Clock News'' on

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and World TV News. In 1987 she was the only reporter to broadcast live from the disaster scene after getting onto the wreck of the

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when it became semi-submerged off Zeebrugge. While at the BBC, in her role as a reporter, she travelled extensively to war zones, famines, conflicts, and other disasters, including the aftermath of the

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, the Brixton Riots, and the 1986 coup in

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. Holden retired from the BBC on medical grounds aged 39 after becoming seriously ill with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus. She later retrained as an artist. From a Foundation Course in Fine Art & Design at The Camden Working Men's College 2006, she went on to Chelsea College of Fine Art and Design graduating in 2010 with BA (Hons) in Fine Art. She is currently living and working in Whitstable. Her book ''An Iron Girl in a Velvet Glove'', a biography of Miss Joan Rhodes, will be published by The History Press was published on 18 November 2021. She is currently a member of ''A is for Aphra (Behn) Society''

Bibliography

*Holden, Triona. ''Positive Options for Antiphospholipid Syndrome (APS): Self-Help and Treatment'' (2003) *Holden, Triona & Hughes, Graham. ''Talking About Lupus: What to do and how to cope'' (2004) *Holden, Triona. ''Queen Coal: Women of the Miners' Strike'' (2005)

References

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