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“It's inevitable that not everyone will like me, and that some will find me annoying. That's fine. All presenters deal with that. What's scary is the ignorance about what having a regional accent means, or indeed doesn't mean. It certainly doesn't equal ignorance.”

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If it's a healthy day, I'll head to the gym, then have a steak salad at the cafe next door.

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I had people who said I was a brilliant producer but I wouldn't get on the news because I was too northern. But there…

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When I come to schools like Norton Primary Academy and meet children who have their lives and careers before them, I hope in some…

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I am a young woman, with a regional accent, from a working class family, who has had a pretty standard education. So far, so…

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I'm proud to be from the North-East.

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My first attempt at a business was a jumble sale which I ran at the end of my next door neighbour's drive. I used…

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There's a common problem: if a kid is not good at exams, they often think they are not skilled. Yet many of them do…

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From a young age I had a real sense of the world of work. This is what vocational education gives you.

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The most rewarding, insightful and challenging year of my life was my 'Year in Industry' working as a trainee engineer at Black & Decker,…

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I'm always on the go, which means my health has often been the thing that suffers.

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I think people tend to underestimate you when you have a Northern accent, for instance if you have to talk to the CEO of…

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