Lynn Bowles was born on 1963 and is a Welsh broadcaster and a former traffic weekday mornings reporter for BBC Radio 2.
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Lynn Bowles's father, Cliff, was a marine engineer; her mother, Josephine, was born in Monmouth but moved to Rumney in Cardiff.
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Lynn Bowles attended St Hilda's School, a boarding school in Somerset, before moving to Llanishen High School when the family lived in Rudry.
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Lynn Bowles returned to the UK in the early 1990s but struggled to find work.
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Lynn Bowles subsequently joined the Nationwide programme on BBC Radio 5 Live where she remained for eight years before moving to BBC Radio 2 in 2000 as the first official traffic news reporter for weekday mornings.
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From Saturday 9 June 2012, and for eight consecutive weeks, Lynn Bowles presented her own show on BBC Radio Wales, featuring guests such as Ken Bruce with whom she appeared as travel reporter on his show on BBC Radio 2.
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On 16 March 2018, during The Chris Evans Breakfast Show and Ken Bruce's mid-morning show, Lynn Bowles announced that she would be leaving BBC Radio 2, after 18 years of broadcasting.
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Lynn Bowles learnt to drive in a Land Rover and became a mascot for the marque after competing in the 2004 run of the Macmillan 4x4 UK Challenge and co-presenting the Heritage Motor Centre Land Rover show from 2005 to 2010.
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Lynn Bowles is an ambassador for Bobath Children's Therapy Centre Wales, a registered charity based in Cardiff that provides specialist Bobath therapy to children from all over Wales who have cerebral palsy.
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Lynn Bowles previously lived in Wimbledon but moved back to Wales permanently in 2018, she regularly travelled back to her family home in the village of Rudry near Caerphilly.