Kat Hawkins (born Kathleen Hawkins in December 1988, in Retford, Nottinghamshire) was a presenter, producer, and reporter. They worked on the

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's technology programme '' Click'', broadcast on the BBC World News and the BBC News Channel in the

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. After leaving university in 2012, they gained a place on the BBC's Journalism Trainee Scheme in 2013. Both of Hawkins' legs were amputated below the knee in 2006 as a result of

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. In addition to her TV work, they played sitting volleyball for Team GB, is a dancer, and has been studying

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since 2013. They also presented the program "People Fixing the World' on the BBC World Service radio.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Hawkins, Kat 1988 births Living people BBC newsreaders and journalists BBC World News British reporters and correspondents English journalists English television presenters Paralympic athletes for Great Britain English amputees Sportspeople with limb difference Alumni of the University of Leeds British technology journalists