1. Jane Hill is one of the main presenters for BBC News, and is the main presenter on the BBC News at One, as well as regularly presenting the BBC Weekend News, BBC News at Ten and BBC News at Six.
20 Facts About Jane Hill
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Jane Amanda Hill was born on 10 June 1969 in Eastbourne, Sussex.
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Jane Hill was privately educated at Micklefield School in East Sussex.
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Jane Hill went on to study politics at Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London, and graduated in 1991 with a Bachelor of Arts degree.
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Jane Hill worked part-time for local BBC Radio in paid and voluntary positions from 1986 to 1991.
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Jane Hill joined the BBC full-time at the end of 1991.
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Jane Hill moved into television following completion of the BBC Regional News Trainee Scheme.
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Jane Hill went on to join BBC Radio Berkshire and South Today as a presenter, before moving later to national news.
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When BBC News launched its new 24-hour channel in November 1997, Jane Hill joined, and was originally an overnight presenter, appearing on the channel's international counterpart BBC World News during the simulcast between the two channels.
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Jane Hill went on to present live coverage on BBC News and BBC World News of the first anniversary commemorations at Ground zero in New York City.
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Jane Hill presented numerous special programmes on BBC One and BBC Two during the war in Iraq, and in December 2003, on the day US forces captured Saddam Hussein, she broadcast for nearly eight hours continuously on both terrestrial channels, BBC News, and BBC World News.
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Jane Hill led the local reporting in Portugal in 2007, for the BBC's coverage of the disappearance of Madeleine McCann.
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Jane Hill returned to the Algarve for all the major developments in the story, and made a half-hour documentary about the case at the end of that year.
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Jane Hill is an occasional relief presenter for the BBC Weekend News on BBC One.
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Jane Hill returned as relief presenter for BBC News at Six and joined the team of relief presenters for BBC News at Ten from August 2014.
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Jane Hill appeared as herself in the 2014 science fiction action film Edge of Tomorrow, which features Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt.
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Jane Hill is a vocal advocate of LGBT+ rights, becoming a columnist for Diva in 2016.
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In December 2009, Jane Hill revealed in the BBC's corporation magazine Ariel that she is a lesbian.
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Jane Hill has spoken on several occasions about the importance of LGBTQ+ representation on television and the under-representation of gay women.
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Jane Hill is a member of the British-American Project, an organisation which exists to promote Anglo-American relations.