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Kay Alexander (born 4 June 1950) is a retired

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television newsreader, best known for presenting ''

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''.

Early life

Alexander was born and brought up in

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. Her mother was a

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and her father was an

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and she has two brothers. After attending the independent

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, Alexander read

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, gaining a degree in 1973. She started a PGCE course which she did not complete.

Career

Alexander initially worked for the

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at

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for

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(where she worked on ''

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'', ''Checkpoint'' and ''

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''). She then worked on BBC ''

'' from the 1970s onwards, at one time being a main anchor. In 1992 she left the evening slot, and mainly presented the breakfast and lunchtime bulletins, three days a week. Her regular co-presenters included

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, Alan Towers,

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and David Davies. In October 2003, the Royal Television Society presented her with a Special Award to mark thirty years in television. Alexander, one of

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' most popular and recognisable television faces, retired after presenting her last news bulletin on ''Midlands Todays lunchtime news on 30 October 2012, and the next evening appeared on air for the last time to receive her colleagues' congratulations. She presented a report about the 50th anniversary of television programme

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that appeared on

on 16 June 2017 and was repeated several times on 18 June 2017 on the

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Personal life

Alexander was until 2012 Chairman of the

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(the first woman to hold this position). During that time she became a Freeman of the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths and a Freeman of the City of London. She is a former Director of the

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and a Patron of

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, the Mary Ann Evans Hospice, cancer charity Breast Friends and now Age UK Birmingham and Age UK Sandwell. Alexander was appointed

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(MBE) in the

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for services to broadcasting and to charity in the West Midlands. In October 1988 Alexander married Brian Conway, a Radio Leicester breakfast radio presenter and a presenter on the East Midlands slot on ''Midlands Today'' from 1984–1990. She was previously married to a musician for sixteen years, having a daughter then a son in the late 1970s. In the 1980s she lived in the

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suburb of

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. She currently lives near Nuneaton on the Leicestershire boundary.Birmingham Mail
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References

External links

BBC Midlands Today Profile
{{DEFAULTSORT:Alexander, Kay 1950 births Alumni of the University of Birmingham English journalists English radio presenters English television presenters Living people Members of the Order of the British Empire People educated at Frensham Heights School Mass media people from Aldershot People from Hinckley and Bosworth (district)