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Lynette Lithgow

Lynette Pearson (16 April 1950 - 11 December 2001), known professionally as Lynette Lithgow), was a Trinidad-born, British-based newsreader and journalist. Her first media job was as a broadcaster for Radio Television Brunei during the 1970s. During the 1980s, she moved to Britain. After working as a presenter for ''Midlands Today'' and a continuity announcer for Granada Television, Lithgow moved to London as a newsreader for the national BBC News in 1988.

Lithgow was one of the original presenters at BBC World Service Television when it launched in 1991 and she also presented BBC 2's ''Newsview''. She left the BBC in 1996 upon gaining a law degree from Oxford University. She subsequently moved to the business news channel CNBC Asia (based in Singapore), where she worked until her death in Trinidad in December 2001. Provided by Wikipedia