Trivia

Studied French and German at Manchester University. As part of her course she spent a year teaching English to teenagers in Toulouse.

She grew up in London, attending Putney High School and then St Paul's Girl's School where she took her A-Levels.

Enjoys photography, art, cinema, skiing and lives in West London.

Her first TV appearance was at the age of fourteen when she appeared briefly in a BBC report for Nationwide (1969) about her mother's bee-keeping enterprise. A few years later, she was one of several teenagers to be interviewed by TV-AM in a feature on "Good Morning Britain" (1984)_ about pocket money.

Co-presented BBC Breakfast News (1989) with Jeremy Bowen from 1997-1999.

Has presented BBC Six O'Clock News (1984) since 2002.

Gave birth to her 1st child at age 35, a daughter Ella Rose Winter on May 20, 2004. Child's father is her husband, Richard Winter.

Gave birth to her 2nd child at age 37, a daughter Georgia Winter on December 8, 2005. Child's father is her husband, Richard Winter.

Gave birth to her 3rd child at age 39, a son Oliver Winter on March 9, 2008. Child's father is her husband, Richard Winter.

Her grandfather, Edwin Raworth, was one of the first pilots in the Royal Air Force when it was launched in 1918.