Nan Winton, BBC's first female newsreader is dead at 93. She reportedly died in hospital on May 11, three days after falling at her home in Dorset. The veteran journalist who was admitted at the hospital with a fractured femur and had surgery the next day, but was later moved to critical care after her heart, kidneys and respiratory system began to fail, died in the ward with her cause of death down to hypertension, frailty of old age and congestive heart failure.

Nan Winton who has been confirmed dead, was a BBC TV continuity announcer for three years from 1958 and later worked on Panorama and Town and Around. She was hired as BBC's first female newsreader in 1960, to counter the news platform's rival ITN who had employed Barbara Mandell as their female newsreader since its launch in 1955. She was however removed, after viewers complained that it ‘wasn’t acceptable’ for a woman to have the role.


https://unclesuru.com/2019/05/21/nan-winton-dead-bbcs-first-female-newsreader-dead-at-93/


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May her soul rest in peace