Rachael Rebecca Bland was a British journalist and presenter from Cardiff, Wales.
11 Facts About Rachael Bland
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Rachael Bland worked for BBC Radio 5 Live, BBC World News and BBC North West Tonight.
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Rachael Bland was known for her podcast, You, Me and the Big C, which was broadcast while she was ill with breast cancer, and in which she discussed issues and treatment of the disease.
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Rachael Bland started her career presenting news bulletins with the BBC Local Radio station BBC Wiltshire.
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Rachael Bland then moved to BBC Radio 5 Live, at first reading the news on Richard Bacon's show, where she became the straight talking foil to Bacon on The Special Half Hour Club.
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When BBC Radio 5 Live moved to MediaCityUK, Salford Quays in 2011, Rachael Bland started to present on BBC North West Tonight as both a newsreader and as the main relief presenter.
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Rachael Bland competed as a triathlete, including the 2010 London Triathlon, raising funds for Breast Cancer Care.
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Rachael Bland was diagnosed with triple-negative breast cancer in November 2016.
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Rachael Bland hoped that clinical treatment would still be available so she could live longer.
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Rachael Bland continued to blog and run You, Me and the Big C, and hoped that she could do enough to give her son memories of her life.
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Rachael Bland died two days later at the age of 40 at her home in Knutsford, Cheshire surrounded by her family.