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Kate Adie reporting from Libya after the bombing, 1986

Adie was born in Sunderland. She is an avid fan of the city's football team, Sunderland A.F.C.. She had a private school education at Sunderland Church High School and Newcastle University where she took a degree in Scandinavian Studies. Her career with the BBC stints as a station assistant at Radio Durham and Radio Brighton before producing shows for Radio Bristol. She then switched to television, directing outside broadcasts. Stints in front of the camera followed on local TV news broadcasts in Newcastle, Plymouth and Southampton. She joined the national news team in 1979, working initially as a court correspondent. Kate Adie reporting from Libya after the bombing, 1986 This work is copyrighted. ... Kate Adie reporting from Libya after the bombing, 1986 This work is copyrighted. ... Map sources for Sunderland at grid reference NZ3957 Sunderland is an industrial city and port in the English metropolitan county of Tyne and Wear. ... Sunderland Association Football Club (Sunderland AFC or SAFC) is an English Premiership football club, based at the newly-built Stadium of Light in Sunderland, on the River Wear in the North-East of England. ... See: University of Newcastle (NSW), a university in Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia University of Newcastle upon Tyne, a university in England. ... Scandinavia, Fennoscandia, and the Kola Peninsula. ... Durham (IPA: locally, in RP) is a small city in the north east of England. ... Brighton on the southern Sussex coast is one of the largest and most famous seaside resorts in England. ... BBC Radio Bristol is the BBC Local Radio service for the English city of Bristol and surrounding area. ... This article is about a city in the United Kingdom. ... Smeatons tower on Plymouth Hoe Plymouth is a city in the South West of England, or alternatively the Westcountry, and is situated within the traditional county of Devon. ... Civic Centre, Southampton Southampton is a city and major port situated on the south coast of England. ... This page refers to the year 1979. ...

Her big break was the Iranian Embassy siege of 1980. At that time it represented a breakthrough for women journalists as until that time warzones and other hotspots were the preserve of male journalists. As that afternoon's duty reporter, Adie was first on the scene as the SAS stormed the embassy. The BBC interrupted coverage of the World Snooker Championships and Adie reported live and unscripted to one of the largest news audiences ever whilst crouched behind a car door. The Iranian Embassy Siege of 1980 was a terrorist siege of the Iranian Embassy in London, United Kingdom. ... 1980 (MCMLXXX) is a leap year starting on Tuesday. ... For other Special Air Services, see Australian Special Air Service Regiment and Special Air Service of New Zealand. ... The World Championship is the climax of snookers annual calendar and the most important snooker event of the year in terms of prestige, prize money and world ranking points. ...

Adie was regularly dispatched to report on disasters and flare-ups throughout the 1980s, including the American bombing of Tripoli in 1986, which proved highly controversial with the Conservative Party Chairman Norman Tebbit, and the Lockerbie bombing of 1988. She was promoted to Chief News Correspondent in 1989 and held the role for fourteen years. One of her first assignments was to report from the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. Major assignments followed in the Gulf War, war in the former Yugoslavia, the 1994 Rwandan Genocide and the British evacuation of foreign nationals from Sierra Leone in 2000. In 2003 Adie withdrew from front-line reporting. She currently works as a freelance journalist and public speaker. Kate Adie presents From our own Correspondent on BBC Radio 4. // Events and trends The 1980s marked an abrupt shift towards more conservative lifestyles after the momentous cultural revolutions which took place in the 1960s and 1970s and the definition of the AIDS virus in 1981. ... This page refers to Tripoli, the capital of Libya. ... 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Conservative Party is the largest political party on the centre-right in the United Kingdom. ... Norman Beresford Tebbit, Baron Tebbit, PC (born March 29, 1931), British Conservative politician and former MP for Chingford, was born in Enfield, and was a journalist on the Financial Times before serving with the RAF during four years of National Service. ... The cockpit landed in a farmers field near a tiny church in Tundergarth, Scotland Pan Am Flight 103 was Pan Ams daily Frankfurt-London-New York-Detroit evening flight. ... 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) is a leap year starting on a Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Unknown Rebel — This famous photo, taken by Associated Press photographer Jeff Widener, depicts a lone protester whose actions halted the progress of a column of advancing tanks for over half an hour. ... C Company, 1st Battalion, The Staffordshire Regiment, 1st UK Armoured Division The 1991 Gulf War was a conflict between Iraq and a coalition force of approximately 30 nations mandated by the United Nations and led by the United States. ... The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was the Yugoslav state that existed from the end of World War II to the Yugoslav wars. ... 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ... The skulls of victims show gashes and signs of violence The Rwandan Genocide was the slaughter of an estimated 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus by a group of Hutu extremists known as Interahamwe during a period of 100 days in 1994. ... Operation Palliser was a British Armed forces operation in Sierra Leone in 2000 under the command of Brigadier David Richards. ... This article is about the year 2000. ... 2003 (MMIII) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A freelancer or (freelance worker) is a self-employed person working in a profession or trade in which full-time employment is also common. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with public speaking. ... BBC Radio 4 is a British domestic radio station which broadcasts a wide variety of chiefly spoken-word programmes including news, drama, comedy, science and history. ...

Her close-to-the-action approach once caused her to be shot at by an "irate Libyan". The shot nicked her collar bone but she didn't suffer permanent harm. In anatomy, the clavicle or collar bone is a bone that makes up part of the shoulder girdle. ...

Adie published a best-selling autobiography in 2002 which sharply criticized changing practices at BBC News. A second book, Corsets to Camouflage: Women and War, was published in 2003. Most recently, in 2005, Adie published her third book 'Nobody's Child.' This uncovers the problems of adoption and questions of identity. 2002(MMII) is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Most press reports indicate that Adie is an intensely private woman and say, with a hint of irritation, that little is known about her beyond her work at the BBC. Perhaps this explains why there was intense media interest when Adie met her biological parents (she was adopted at birth) for the first time in 1993. When the Mail on Sunday suggested that her "fearless reporter" image was a baseless myth, Adie sued, won, and was awarded £125,000 in damages. Adoption is the legal act of permanently placing a child with a parent or parents other than the birth parents. ... 1993 (MCMXCIII) is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ... The Daily Mail and its Sunday edition the Mail on Sunday are British newspapers, first published in 1896. ...

Adie was awarded the OBE in 1993 and the Richard Dimbleby Award from BAFTA in 1990. She has honorary degrees from six universities, is an Honorary Professor of Journalism at University of Sunderland and has an Honorary Fellowship at Royal Holloway College. Commanders Badge of the Order of the British Empire The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is an order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by George V. The Order includes five classes in civil and military divisions, in order of seniority: Knight or Dame Grand Cross... The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA), is a British organization that hosts annual awards shows for film, television, childrens film and television, and interactive media. ... An Honorary Degree (Latin: honoris causa ad gradum) is an extra-ordinary academic degree awarded to an individual as a decoration, rather than as the result of matriculating and studying for several years. ... The University of Sunderland is located in the City of Sunderland in North East England. ... University Logo Royal Holloway, University of London is a college of the University of London located in Egham, Surrey, England. ...

References

• The Kindness of Strangers, Autobiography published by Headline, ISBN 075531073X

External links

• A profile from the Observer that speculates on Adie's professional relationship with others in the BBC