TRISH WILLIAMSONTrish Williamson, one of Britain’s first ever breakfast TV weather girls, was killed in a car accident in Suffolk on 9 November, 2007, aged 52.Ms Williamson, a mother-of-two, appeared on TV-am throughout the 1980s. The attractive brunette was one of the first weather girls to forecast on Good Morning Britain alongside Wincey Willis and Ulrika Jonsson.She went on to become an ITV national weather forecaster during the 1990s and later a producer for the BBC's Inside Out current affairs programme. She was also a familiar face in Devon and Cornwall for her work for broadcaster TSW but had recently moved to London with her husband and children.Trish Williamson was the daughter of BBC Two's Man Alive reporter Harold Williamson, famous for his Children Talking On Braden's Week programme in the 1970s. She was a graduate in Middle Eastern studies, and had extensive experience of filming overseas in countries including India, South Africa and the Caribbean.Good Morning Britain was launched on ITV on 1 February, 1983, with presenters David Frost, Robert Kee, Michael Parkinson, Angela Rippon and Anna Ford. It also launched the careers of Nick Owen, Anne Diamond, Richard Keys, Wincey Willis, Lizzie Webb and Ulrika Jonsson. TV-am became one of the most successful TV companies in the world, until the ITV franchise expired in 1992.In her later career as a producer, Ms Williamson won several accolades, including two BBC Ruby awards for an Inside Out investigation into the long-term effects of ADHD drug Ritalin on children in 2006 and a film about the Gypsy community for BBC Look North in 2007.Her friend, broadcaster David Fitzgerald, said her death had come as a "real blow" to all who knew and worked with her. "She was certainly a great friend and she will be very sadly missed. She was getting going on some very successful production work for television when tragedy has befallen her."Paul Woolwich, a BBC executive producer who worked closely with Ms Williamson, said: "We are deeply saddened by this news. Tricia was a fine film-maker who was at the peak of her career and was adored by everyone who worked with her. Our thoughts and prayers go to her two boys and her family."
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