ITV weather presenter Wincey Willis has died aged 76. The TV star, who was the first ever female national weather forecaster, died on 18 December last year, with the news only publicly announced on ...

Willis later returned to broadcasting in 1993, this time as a wildlife presenter on Tyne Tees Weekend. She simultaneously worked for the worm composting company, Wiggly Wigglers.

In 1981 she joined Tyne Tees TV as a weather presenter on Northern Life, later hosting her own show Wincey’s Pets.

The Tyne Tees TV presenter jets out to Africa in two weeks with a group of fellow climbers, all hoping to scale the world’s tallest free-standing mountain, which towers over the Tanzanian ...