Gaynor Barnes
Gaynor Louise Barnes (born 27 September 1961) is a British presenter and journalist who was employed by ITV Yorkshire. Barnes is a patron of Yorkshire Air Ambulance and The Prince of Wales Hospice in Pontefract. Early life She was born in Uxbridge in Middlesex. From 1973 to 1978, she went to St Dominic's Independent Grammar School for Girls (St Dominic's Sixth Form College since 1979) in Harrow on the Hill. From 1978 to 1980, she went to the independent Heathfield School in Harrow. Career BBC From 1980 to 1991 she worked for the BBC in London as a research assistant in news and current affairs. During this time she worked on BBC Question Time. After training as a journalist, Gaynor worked on local radio stations and on Breakfast Time, Newsnight, and Panorama. ITV She became a presenter for Calendar on 24 June 1991. Barnes co-presented the South edition of Calendar from January 2007, however she was redeployed as a newsreader in February 2009, following the merger of north–south editions. Her colleague Christine Talbot took leave from co-presenting Calendar in January 2012, with Barnes acting as her fill-in for the remainder of the year; from January 2013 she was a news