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4 unusual facts about Maxine Mawhinney


Matthew Amroliwala

In 1997, he joined the BBC News Channel as a presenter of the channel's evening programmes and from the beginning of 2001, he has presented the late afternoon news programme, first with Jane Hill and then with Maxine Mawhinney.

Mawhinney

Maxine Mawhinney, newsreader on BBC News, the BBC's 24 hour rolling news channel

Maxine Mawhinney

She was the duty presenter in the early hours of 31 August 1997 when news broke of the car crash of Diana, Princess of Wales.

Since then she has presented various timeslots on the channel, including a period in the afternoon slot alongside Matthew Amroliwala and Chris Eakin, before being shifted to Sunday afternoons in April 2006.



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