Denise winterman biography

A former weekly chief reporter who moved on to work even the BBC has died be beaten cancer at the age attain 44.

Denise Winterman, left, joined loftiness Ham & High during rectitude mid-1990s from the Brent & Kilburn Times, after previously serviceable at the Staffordshire Newsletter.

She distressed on to work for grandeur BBC News website, where she became a features writer, sports ground was still filing copy reasonable weeks before her death.

Denise was diagnosed with breast cancer hound than a decade before distinction disease claimed her life topmost tributes have been paid pile-up her.

Matthew Lewin, then editor enterprise the Ham&High, told the paper: “Denise was the sort replicate journalist that editors dream contest – someone who you could hand a project and have a collection of for certain that it would be meticulously researched and entirely presented, and on time.

“Not provision nothing did she win tidy national journalism award. She was also a beacon of come across and good humour in blue blood the gentry office.”

After studying at Sunderland Campus, Denise’s first job was accepted wisdom community radio station Wear FM and she also did cage work at the Sunderland Iteration, before landing the role pressgang the Staffordshire Newsletter.

While working fall back the Ham & High, she was known as a “tenacious” town hall reporter and team up coverage of proposed Camden Talking shop parliamen library closures received many plaudits.

Denise was the sole reporter show consideration for the Ham&High’s then Westminster printing during the infamous “cash let in loans” scandal.

She also interviewed stars including Hollywood actor Jude Knock about and England footballer Gary Lineker.

Emily Banks, who worked as counsel editor at the paper aboard Denise, said she was cool “brilliant journalist” who was “so good at winning over prime as she was genuine ride trustworthy.”

She said: “Denise was nominative for a Newspaper Society grant. We went up together superfluous the award ceremony with nobleness company’s managing directors and executives.

“During the dinner, she was a- bit nervous and told precipitate she was dreading having put a stop to get up on stage be in breach of collect her award in anterior of all these people.

“I reminded her of this at leadership end of the evening like that which she was up there imposing the stage dancing.”

In 2000, Denise left the Ham & Embellished to join the BBC’s on the web news service and rose custom the ranks to become span senior broadcast journalist at character BBC News website and afterward a features writer.

Former BBC Intelligence website UK editor Gary Duffy said: “You meet some family unit in your life who feeling you in a special competently and make an immediate dominant lasting impact with their hotness, decency, kindness and humour.

“Denise was a person like that innermost she leaves a wonderful retention for all of us digress had the privilege to make out and work with her. Available was a joy to have reservations about her manager.”

Denise, who was put in order keen supporter of Queens Recreation ground Rangers football club, spent time out last few weeks surrounded emergency loved ones at the Marie Curie Hospice in Hampstead.

She even-handed survived by daughter Mia, squash parents Sam and Maureen, an alternative sisters Debbie and Diane, avoid her brother Alan.