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Mai Davies
Main presenter of 'Coast To Coast' (South edition) with Fred Dinenage from the late-1980s until the end of 1992. She moved to Meridian to front the Thames Valley edition of 'Meridian Tonight'. Mai, who started out on HTV Wales, has returned to the company to present the political series 'The Sharp End', and is also one of the mainstays of the 'Wales This Week' team.

Su Evans
Long serving ATV Network and Central TV in-vision continuity announcer, who is now a regular regional weather presenter on ITV 1 Central and ITV 1 Wales. Su also freelanced as an out-of-vision announcer for Central after it became part of the Carlton group in the late-1990s and into 2000/2001. Sue also did relief announcing on Southern Television in the 1970s.

Jenny Harrison
Weather and travel presenter for Central Television, and later a regular weather presenter on HTV West and HTV Wales.

Nicola Heywood-Thomas
Main co-anchor of HTV's 'Wales At Six', and then 'Wales Tonight' in the late-1980s and 1990s, and still occasionally appears on the nightly ITV Wales news programme.

She began her broadcasting career with BBC Wales where she spent 6 years as a researcher, sub-editor and reporter, and then joined HTV in 1983 as a reporter/presenter. She is also a presenter/producer of HTV's weekly arts programme 'High Performance', and her programme 'Not A Bad Voice', a tribute to Sir Geraint Evans on his 70th birthday, won the 1992 BAFTA Cymru award for Best Contribution To Music Entertainment.

Nicola now presents a daily show on BBC Radio Wales.

Emma Hignett
Weather presenter on both HTV West and HTV Wales until January 2002, who now co-presents the breakfast show on South Wales' Red Dragon Radio.

Jonathan Hill
Current main anchor of ITV 1 Wales news programme 'Wales Tonight'. Jonathan has been a key news presenter for the channel for the last few years after joining the company as a news reporter in 1993. He has also reported and presented for 'Wales This Week' and his investigation into a notorious Welsh murder case won a BAFTA Award.

Sylvia Horn
HTV 'Wales At Six' mainstay in the early-1980s, with Liz Lloyd Griffiths.

Sam Lloyd
Sam is a sports presenter for ITV Wales' 'Wales Tonight'.

Liz Lloyd-Griffiths
One of the main anchors of 'Wales At Six' in the 1980s, who moved into television production later in the decade, and is now a producer for an independent production company. Liz does still appear on HTV from time-to-time - c.2001 she fronted a series of 'House To House' for the station.

Alistair Mann
Granada TV's chief sportscaster on 'Granada Reports' and also presenter of 'Soccer Sunday' on Granada and neighbouring Border Television. Alistair also presented one season of HTV Wales' Sunday soccer programme in the mid-1990s.

Alistair is believed to have left Granada in 2006.

Kevin Owen
Kevin Owen started his career as a traffic news broadcaster for AA Roadwatch in Cardiff, and was head hunted by BBC TV Wales as a news presenter, from where he later moved to HTV Wales as one of several main presenters for the local news programme there.

After moving across the Severn to Bristol, he stayed with HTV West's 'HTV News' for five years, but the programme changed its presenter line-up in autumn 2001. He went on to become a regular presenter for HTV West's 'Out Of Order' consumer programme, and also presented news bulletins on Sky News, Meridian, as well as hosting his own Saturday morning show on Somerset's Orchard FM.

In August 2002, Kevin Owen moved to Jersey based Channel Television as one of the main anchors of the nightly 'Channel Replort' programme.

He is now a regular news reader for Sky News.

Lucy Owen
Current co-anchor of ITV Wales' 'Wales Tonight'. Lucy also presents the company's travel series 'Away Days'. Born in Cardiff, she joined HTV in 1995 and soon after began reporting and presenting on the main flagship news programme.

Nick Partridge
Nick joined HTV as a press officer in 1977. By the early-1980s he was on screen as a reporter and presenter. Since the mid-1990s, he has been business editor with ITV Wales News.

Alan Rustad
Long serving HTV Wales news anchorman in the 1980s and early-1990s, who moved into corporate communications in 1994. After a period as broadcast manager, then head of business relations, for the private healthcare company, BUPA, in 1999 Alan set up his own company based in Tunbridge Wells, Kent.

AR Communications handles public relations, video production and media training for a range of clients. For more details you can visit his firm's website.

Lorna Stevens
HTV West and Thames TV continuity announcer who moved to the HTV weather department when in-vision announcing was axed in 1993. Lorna Stevens was regularly seen as a weather presenter on both HTV West and HTV Wales, but recently left when weather presentation was centralised in Birmingham. Lorna is also believed to have announced for HTV Wales.

A former professional model who worked with The Bluebell Girls first in Barcelona, Spain, and then in Paris, she started her broadcasting career on her return the UK with local ILR station Radio 210 in the Thames Valley. She went on to work as an announcer for BBC Radio 4 and was an announcer on BBC TV from 1984 to 1986, before embarking on a career as a freelance announcer/presenter for several ITV companies and also on BFBS (British Forces Broadcasting). Lorna also worked as an announcer on Westcountry Television in Plymouth for around 18 months from 1993 with colleague Peter Griffin.

Bob Symonds
Long serving HTV Wales presenter, who has fronted 'Report Wales' and 'Y Dydd', and made a name for himself as an HTV and ITV rugby commentator.

He regularly presented the sports segment on HTV's 'Wales At Six' news programme in the 1980s and 1990s, and produced the company's 'Front Row' Rugby programme. In 2002 he became HTV Wales' main sports commentator.

Huw Weekes
Yorkshire TV, Tyne Tees TV and then HTV Wales news presenter and reporter since 1988, who was found dead in January 2001 on a beach near his home. An inquest recorded a verdict of accidental death.

HTV Wales reported the sad news in this way:

"The death of popular HTV presenter Huw Weekes shocked and saddened people all across Wales. Hundreds of tributes poured in to the HTV newsroom from viewers, colleagues and politicians. Many people said that although they had never met him, they felt as though they had lost a good friend. It is clear from all the messages that Huw will be remembered with great respect and affection. For the last thirteen years he was one of the most popular faces on HTV. He loved his job and it was obvious to the viewers, as was his wonderful sense of humour.

HTV's controller, Elis Owen, described Huw as a cornerstone of HTV. 'He was an excellent journalist...one of the few journalists who could convey serious presentational style with a sense of humour.'

He was one of the most experienced television journalists in the country. He began his career on local newspapers but his talent was soon spotted and he became a regular face on Yorkshire Television, reporting on the miners' strike. In 1988 Huw made the move back home to Wales and joined HTV. It was here that he really showed the range of his talents, from being anchorman on the station's nightly news programme to compiling his famously off-the-wall reports on the funny side of life. He was a consummate professional to the end. His last broadcast was on the day he died.

First Secretary, Rhodri Morgan, was among the many who paid tribute to him, saying he was deeply sorry at the loss of a friend. The greatest passion of Huw's life was his family. On Saturday afternoons you could often find him with his children on the terraces at his beloved Cardiff City. His brother Gareth described him as a wonderful family man and a model father. He was, he said, a loving person and a marvellously entertaining companion. He will be terribly missed by all those who knew him.

Huw, who was 43, was was found dead on a beach near his home in Llantwit Major on January 17. He had recently returned to work after being ill with depression. He leaves a wife and three children. Our thoughts are with them."

Dilwyn Young-Jones
An early career as a drama teacher and then a radio announcer for BBC Wales stood Dilwyn Young-Jones in good stead for a move to television in the early-1980s when he joined HTV Wales as a continuity announcer.

He has also presented several children's programmes and in 1995 became HTV Wales' main weatherman. Dilwyn left weather presentation in January 2002 when presentation for this was moved to Birmingham, but is still heard today on HTV Wales continuity duty as a freelance announcer.

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