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Gaynor Louise Barnes (born 27 September 1961) is a British
presenter A presenter is a person or organization responsible for the running of a public event, or someone who conveys information on media via a broadcasting outlet. Presenter may refer to: People * News presenter, person who presents news during a new ...
and journalist who was employed by
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. Barnes is a patron of
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and The Prince of Wales Hospice in
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.


Early life

She was born in
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in
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. From 1973 to 1978, she went to St Dominic's Independent Grammar School for Girls ( St Dominic's Sixth Form College since 1979) in
Harrow on the Hill Harrow on the Hill is a locality and historic village in the borough of Harrow in Greater London, England. The name refers to Harrow Hill, ,Mills, A., ''Dictionary of London Place Names'', (2001) and is located some half a mile south of the mod ...
. From 1978 to 1980, she went to the independent Heathfield School in Harrow.


Career


BBC

From 1980 to 1991 she worked for the
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in London as a research assistant in news and current affairs. During this time she worked on BBC
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. After training as a journalist, Gaynor worked on local radio stations and on Breakfast Time,
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, and Panorama.


ITV

She became a presenter for Calendar on 24 June 1991. Barnes co-presented the South edition of Calendar from January 2007, however she was redeployed as a newsreader in February 2009, following the merger of north–south editions. Her colleague
Christine Talbot Christine Talbot is a British television journalist and presenter who worked for ITV Yorkshire as a main presenter for its flagship news programme ''ITV News Calendar''. Career Christine trained at Lancashire Polytechnic's School of Journalism ...
took leave from co-presenting ''Calendar'' in January 2012, with Barnes acting as her fill-in for the remainder of the year; from January 2013 she was a news correspondent. In late 2014, Barnes replaced
Kate Walby Kate Walby (née Webster) is a broadcast journalist, and was a presenter for ITV Yorkshire's ''Calendar'', but is currently a reporter for Lookaround. Based in Leeds, but originally from the Isle of Man, Walby was previously a reporter and pre ...
as the Friday female co-presenter, and as presenting the bulletins during Good Morning Britain on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday's, also as a relief presenter/newsreader when Talbot is absent. Barnes presented the now-defunct magazine programme ''Tonight'' (between 1996 and 2000), and was the out-of-vision co-host for the 1997 ''
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'' remake of '' Winner Takes All''. After three decades, it was announced along with regular Friday co-presenter, John Shires, that they would be both leaving ITV Yorkshire at the end of March 2021. In September 2021, Barnes received an Outstanding Contribution Award along with four of her fellow Calendar presenters at the Royal Television Society Yorkshire Programme Awards.


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