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Sue Kinnear

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Sue Kinnear reports on welfare issues for British Forces News. Her brief is to highlight the issues and campaigns that really matter to forces personnel and their families, right across the deployed world. She also aims to make sure that welfare matters relevant to the significant and growing ex-service community are properly addressed across all of our output.

In a broadcast journalism career that now spans 20 years, she's worked in radio and television in news, sport and current affairs for ITV and the BBC. She's made television documentaries on a wide range of subjects including animal to human organ transplantation, obsessive compulsive disorder and transvestites. She's also produced religious programmes and fronted countryside and sports programming on regional television.

Her reporting career in radio and TV has included countless breaking news stories - from being the only journalist able to make it into work for the breakfast shift at her radio station when the 1987 Great Storm hit the east of England, to fronting live outside broadcast TV coverage of the devastating floods that swept across the south east in 2000.

While working for Anglia Television, she charted the rise of John Major through the political ranks to Prime Minister and took responsibility for covering medical and science stories while based in ITV's Cambridge Bureau. She enjoyed a stint as Sports Editor for the south east of England while at Meridian Broadcasting.

Sue later anchored Meridian Tonight for ITV, working as the programme's main presenter, from 1999 until 2004, when she went freelance. She's since split her time between the demands of journalism and the demands of her two young children, two teenage step-children and two Labradors.

You can email Sue: forcesnews@bfbs.com

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