Life after BBC News looks good! Natasha Kaplinsky and Sian Williams look radiant at 記念の to George Alagiah after quitting high-圧力 presenter 役割s
The 広大な／多数の／重要な and the good of British news broadcasting - past and 現在の - were at?St ツバメ-in-the-Fields church in Trafalgar Square, central London, yesterday to honour the life of their former 同僚 George Alagiah, who died in July, after a long 戦う／戦い with bowel 癌.?
Amongst those gathered - and 証明するing that life away from the high-圧力d 環境 of rolling news 控訴s them - were former BBC News 錨，総合司会者s Natasha Kaplinsky and Sian Williams.
Former 厳密に 星／主役にする Kaplinsky, 51, 削減（する） a glamorous 人物／姿／数字 in a 黒人／ボイコット velour trousersuit, wearing her 最高潮の場面d hair tousled and 宙返り／暴落するing around her shoulders and a glint of sparkling jewellery on her wrist.?
一方／合間 Williams, 58, - 公式に known as Dr Williams since qualifying to become a?qualified 借り切る／憲章d NHS psychologist - looked radiant in a vibrant ultra-海洋 控訴 and 特許 黒人／ボイコット 壇・綱領・公約 loafers.??
Dressed in a 黒人／ボイコット velour trousersuit, former BBC News at Six host Natasha Kaplinsky looked radiant as she …に出席するd the service to honour the life of her former co-presenter George Alagiah in London on Tuesday
Kaplinsky, who 現在のd News at Six と一緒に Alagiah for four years before defecting to Channel 5 News in 2007, now 作品 as a more general 放送者 and has been 大統領 of children's charity?Barnardo's since July 2019.?
Still 伴う／関わるd in high profile （選挙などの）運動をするs - just not 報告（する）／憶測ing on them, earlier this year, the presenter, who has two teenage children with husband Justin Bower, called on the 政府 to introduce tougher age 立証 to stop children from coming into 接触する with 不適切な 構成要素.
Williams, whose TV career has spanned over 30 years and seen her 報告（する）／憶測 on everything from Hillsborough to the Asian 津波, was a presenter on BBC Breakfast for eleven years between 2001 and 2012.
Wearing a jewelled poppy and a sparkling bracelet, Kaplinsky, who has stepped away from the newsroom in 最近の years in favour of more general 現在のing 役割s 削減（する） a glamorous 人物／姿／数字
Dr Sian Williams, 58, - 公式に known as Dr Williams since qualifying to become a qualified 借り切る／憲章d NHS psychologist - looked radiant in a vibrant ultra-海洋 控訴 and 特許 黒人／ボイコット 壇・綱領・公約 loafers
Williams, who also 現在のd for Channel 5 after her 11-year BBC career, looked glamorous と一緒に the 広大な／多数の／重要な and the good of BBC broadcasting on Tuesday
In 2016, the 放送者, who is married to fellow 新聞記者／雑誌記者 Paul Woolwich, underwent a '残虐な' do uble mastectomy that left her '乱打するd and broken' after 存在 診断するd with breast 癌.?
She retrained after feeling disillusioned with the world of broadcasting and earned a 博士号 of counselling psychology from City University of London while in her 50s.
Her late mother and grandmother were nurses, her brother is in hospital 管理／経営 and her son is an A&E doctor - and she said the career change was in part 動機づけるd by those around her.?
She told The Telegraph in 2020: 'I look at my family and think. "They’re doing it, time for you to step up’”.
'I 借りがある an enormous 負債 to the NHS for helping me, for helping my family. I’m just so profoundly 感謝する for it.'
Kaplinsky, who 現在のd News at Six と一緒に Alagiah for four years before defecting to Channel 5 News in 2007, now 作品 as a more general presenter and has been 大統領 of children's charity Barnardo's since July 2019. 権利: The 星／主役にする during her BBC News 現在のing days
Co-hosts: Natasha and George were 会社／堅い friends and co-hosted News At Six from 2005 to 2007 (pictured on the 始める，決める of the BBC Six O'Clock news in 2007)
Sian Williams showing off a 最近の hairdo on her Instagram account; the 放送者 earned a 博士号 of counselling psychology from City University of London while in her 50s as she stepped away from mainstream news 報告（する）／憶測ing
Some of the most 尊敬（する）・点d?BBC?星／主役にするs were at the St ツバメ-in-the-Fields church service yesterday to remember the life of Alagiah, fou r months after his death at the age of 67 に引き続いて a 戦う／戦い with bowel 癌.
放送者s 現在の 含むd?Nick Robinson, 示す Austin, Reeta Chakrabarti, Fiona Bruce, Fergus Walsh, Simon McCoy, Sophie Raworth and?Matthew Amroliwala.?
Mr Alagiah's wife フランs Robathan, with whom he had two children, and 副／悪徳行為 海軍大将 Sir Timothy Laurence -?Princess Anne's husband - also …に出席するd the service led by Reverend Dr Sam 井戸／弁護士席s which featured music from the London African Gospel Choir.
Those 現在の heard reflections on Mr Alagiah's career while his final message to the world was read out by his former BBC Six O'Clock News co-presenter Sophie Raworth.
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/div> BBC News at Six presenter George Alagiah (pictured) died on July 24 in London 老年の 67 に引き続いて a 戦う／戦い with bowel 癌
She told the congregation:?'We end the programme today with George in his own words. If you 港／避難所't already told the people you love, that you love them, tell them. If you 港／避難所't already told them how 攻撃を受けやすい you いつかs feel, tell them.'
'If you want to tell them that you would like to be with them until the 前線 hall stairs feel like エベレスト, tell them. You never know what is coming around the corner. And if, lucky you, there is nothing around the corner, then at least you got your defence in first.'
Sri Lanka-born 新聞記者／雑誌記者 Alagiah, the 直面する of BBC One's News At Six since 2007, was 診断するd with 行う／開催する／段階 four bowel 癌, which had spread to his 肝臓 and lymph nodes, in April 2014.
He 耐えるd two 一連の会議、交渉／完成するs of chemotherapy and several 操作／手術s, 含むing the 除去 of most of his 肝臓.
In October 2015 he 発表するd that his 治療 was over and returned to BBC News At Six on November 10.
Alagiah joined the BBC in 1989 and spent many years as one of the 会社／団体's 主要な foreign 特派員s before moving to 現在のing.
BBC presenters Fiona Bruce (left) and Mishal Husain speak outside the 記念の today
BBC 同僚s Reeta Chakrabarti and?Fergus Walsh outside Alagiah's service in London today
BBC newsreader?Sophie Raworth (pictured) was の中で those at George Alagiah's 記念の service today. She read out the moving words which Mr Alagiah 手配中の，お尋ね者 to be 株d at his 記念の
He first began hosting the 6pm news 公式発表 in 早期に 2003, but stepped up to 前線 it 単独の four years later に引き続いて the 出発 of his co-host, Natasha Kaplinsky.
He was 以前 a 目だつ foreign 特派員, often as a specialist in Africa with ニュース報道 of civil wars in Somalia and Liberia 同様に as the 集団殺戮 in Rwanda 20 years ago.
Throughout his career he interviewed central political 人物／姿／数字s, の中で them former South African 大統領，／社長 Nelson Mandela, 大司教 Desmond Tutu, and ex-Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe.
Before joining the BBC, Alagiah worked as a print 新聞記者／雑誌記者 and went on to 令状 a number of 調書をとる／予約するs 含むing A Home From Home, which looked at what it means to be British.
Throughout his illustrious career, he also 現在のd other shows such as Mixed Britannia, looking at the UK's mixed-race 全住民.
He was made an OBE in the 2008 New Year Honours.
