Yorkshire Air Museum role for Jan Leeming
9:09am Friday 30th December 2011 in News
TV newsreader Jan Leeming is to become a vice-president of the Allied Air Forces Memorial at the Yorkshire Air Museum at Elvington, near York.
Ms Leeming will join the Chief of the Air Staff, Sir Stephen Dalton, and the Archbishop of York, Dr John Sentamu, in the post from January 1.
The memorial is the only one of its kind in Europe, commemorating the airmen and women from all over the world who fought with Britain since the First World and up to the present day, in particular the 58,000 airmen and women from over 18 allied countries who died during the Second World War
By: sycamore - 31st December 2011 at 22:17
F380, no ,he was Manager/commentator etc..
By: Arabella-Cox - 31st December 2011 at 18:55
TV newsreader Jan Leeming is to become a vice-president of the Allied Air Forces Memorial at the Yorkshire Air Museum at Elvington, near York.
Ms Leeming will join the Chief of the Air Staff, Sir Stephen Dalton, and the Archbishop of York, Dr John Sentamu, in the post from January 1.
So they’ve overlooked Ken Ward again? 😀
By: Arabella-Cox - 31st December 2011 at 18:25
Wasn’t she married to a former leader of The Red Arrows?
Did my 1st solo at Elvington in a JP3 1965.:eek:
By: bleeming - 31st December 2011 at 06:13
Two Leeming’s now !
😎
By: jettisoning - 30th December 2011 at 17:12
jan leeming
wikipedia
(highlighted in red possible connection with the Air Museum)
Born Janet Atkins in Kent, England,[1] and educated at the St. Joseph’s Convent Grammar School, she worked as an actress and presenter in Australia and New Zealand before becoming a well-known face on British television in regional and children’s programmes. After a stint presenting the BBC One afternoon show Pebble Mill at One between 1974 and 1979, she became one of the UK’s best known newsreaders in the 1980s on the same channel for most of the decade, and also hosted the 1982 Eurovision Song Contest.
She has kept a relatively low profile since leaving the newsroom in 1987,[2] with bit parts and one-off specials including as a stand-in newsreader for the Channel 4’s breakfast show The Big Breakfast during the 1990s. Her most recent appearances include one as herself in the film Whatever Happened to Harold Smith?, starring Tom Courtenay, in 1999; and latterly on The Harry Hill Show; So Graham Norton; Lowri; Good Morning Australia; Esther and Through the Keyhole. [B][COLOR=”Red”]At the Barbican she presented the RAF Concert to mark the 60th Anniversary of the Battle of Britain.[/COLOR][/B]Since 2000 much of her time has been spent in corporate work and her longtime passion working with a Cheetah conservation charity in South Africa. She appeared in Safari School, a reality television series, which was first broadcast on BBC Two during January and February 2007.
By: efiste2 - 30th December 2011 at 17:06
Heres hoping she is fan of cold war jets too!!!!
By: David Burke - 30th December 2011 at 16:43
Is Jan still a tv newsreader???
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December 30, 2011 at 11:39 am