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Triona Holden
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 ''Sheffield Star'' newspaper, eventually becoming their assistant crime reporter. Her first major story was Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper. She briefly worked as a broadcast journalist for Mercia Sound in Coventry, then a freelancer for LBC in London, before joining the BBC in 1982. She started on BBC Radio, before moving to television. Working as a news presenter and reporter, she covered the UK miners' strike (1984–85), miners' strike 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 ''Today (BBC Radio 4), Today'' and ''PM (BBC Radio 4), PM'' programme on BBC Radio 4; presented the ''Six O'Clock News'' on BBC 1; ''Newsbeat'' on BBC Radio 1, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sheffield Star
''The Star'', often known as the ''Sheffield Star'', is a daily newspaper published in Sheffield, England, from Monday to Saturday each week. Originally a broadsheet, the newspaper became a tabloid (newspaper format), tabloid in 1993. ''The Star'', the weekly ''Sheffield Telegraph'' and the ''Sheffield Star Green 'Un, Green 'Un'' are published by Sheffield Newspapers Ltd (owned by National World), based at Cubo Work on Carver Street in Sheffield City Centre. History ''The Star'' is marketed in South Yorkshire, North Derbyshire and North Nottinghamshire and reaches its readers through its main edition and district edition for Doncaster. The Rotherham and Barnsley district editions closed in 2008. The total average issue readership for ''The Star'' is 105,498. The newspaper which subsequently became ''The Star'' began as the ''Sheffield Evening Telegraph'', the first edition of which was published on 7 June 1887. It soon took over its only local rival, the ''Sheffield Evenin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
