Armine Margaret Sandford (1928 – 4 January 2011) was an English actress and
news presenter
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Born in
St Germans, Cornwall
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, Sandford was the daughter of a physician who practised at Exeter.
[Patrick Robertson, ''The Book of Firsts'' (1975), p. 181] In 1950 she appeared in a stage revival of ''
Doctor Faustus'', and during an acting career on screen she appeared in the films ''
A Town Like Alice
''A Town Like Alice'' (United States title: ''The Legacy'') is a romance novel by Nevil Shute, published in 1950 when Shute had newly settled in Australia. Jean Paget, a young Englishwoman, becomes romantically interested in a fellow prisoner ...
'' (1956), ''A Picture of Autumn'' (1957) and
''Virtuoso'' (1959), and continued to appear in television programmes until about 1966.
On 30 September 1957, Sandford became the first woman television newsreader when she joined the
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West Region's daily television
news bulletin
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from its studios in
Bristol
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.
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She died in 2011 in Leicester, aged 82.
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Filmography
* ''A Town Like Alice
''A Town Like Alice'' (United States title: ''The Legacy'') is a romance novel by Nevil Shute, published in 1950 when Shute had newly settled in Australia. Jean Paget, a young Englishwoman, becomes romantically interested in a fellow prisoner ...
'' (1956)
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External links
Points West
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Women in News
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1928 births
2011 deaths
BBC newsreaders and journalists