Britain’s (and possibly the World’s!) longest-serving TV weather forecaster, Michael Fish was born in Eastbourne in 1944, and educated at Eastbourne College. On joining the Meteorological Office in November 1962, his first posting was to Gatwick Airport. In 1965 he transferred, on promotion, to the Met Office headquarters in Bracknell to work on research projects. Between 1966 and 1968, while based at the London Weather Centre, he took a sandwich course in Applied Physics at the City University.

Michael Fish’s broadcasting career began in 1971 when he started forecasting for BBC Radio and in January 1974 he became part of BBC Television’s weather team.

Made famous by the ‘Hurricane’ in 1987, he was compulsorily retired from the Met Office in 2004 but is still presenting the weather on BBC Southeast. He has made many appearances on television and radio shows, ranging from light entertainment to factual programmes. Recently he tried his hand at acting, touring with “The

Born in Nottingham in April 1950, Gill led a fairly ordinary life albeit growing up with a musical and literary background; links to the Royal Navy were ever present though, so it is not surprising that at the age of eighteen she joined the Women’s Royal Naval Service as a Radio Operator (Morse). There followed several happy years, both in this country and overseas, leaving the service with the rate of Petty Officer Wren Radio Supervisor (Morse) on the birth of her first child.

Settled in Lincolnshire, where she still resides, Gill concentrated for a while, on bringing up three children and continuing her interest in Guiding before training to be a Basic Skills lecturer in Further and Adult Education. As an interest Gill began to look into tracing her family history and this led to a far more in-depth interest in research and other writing related projects, mainly of a non-fiction and historical nature for the local newspaper. Along with a lifelong interest in singing this ensured