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Anne Diamond has been a household name for the past 25 years, working in daily TV, radio and national newspapers.

Anne's TV career is well known, but her radio credentials are also considerable.

She has been the anchor of many high profile breakfast shows – including four years on LBC, two years on Radio Oxford and she now regularly presents weekend and morning shows on ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ London and ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Berkshire.

Far from being just a journalist, she pioneered breakfast TV in the early 80s, anchoring TVam and interviewing global leaders, celebrities and top politicians in locations as varied as Sydney Harbour during the Australian Bicentennial, the Brandenburg Gate during the fall of the Berlin Wall, Bosnia, Hollywood and No 10 Downing St.

Anne is a classically trained pianist, flautist and singer.

Professionally, she is most recognised, however, for her reputation as a health campaigner, spearheading awareness drives on a national level concerning cervical cancer screening, autism, dyslexia and vaccination programmes.

She marks as her proudest achievement the formation and presentation of the 1991 Back To Sleep campaign to prevent cot death, which dramatically reduced the SIDS rate in Britain – from around 2,500 annual deaths to 300.

This followed the cot death of her own son, Sebastian.

For her part in saving what's estimated to be around 20,000 lives, Anne was recently awarded the Gold Medal of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, the only non-medic to ever receive such an award.

Now she has turned her attention to the obesity epidemic, since her own well-publicised battle with her weight.

Two years ago, Anne underwent gastric surgery – firstly abroad then subsequently here in Britain, and has fought her way back to fitness.