{"id":350218,"date":"2026-03-27T07:52:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T07:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/350218\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T07:52:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T07:52:08","slug":"bbc-radio-derby-newsreader-sally-swinfen-retires-after-37-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/350218\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC Radio Derby newsreader Sally Swinfen retires after 37 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She has been involved in all the big stories across the patch. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;You think of Toyota, Bombardia, Derby County, you know these stories affect so many people and you&#8217;re part of it, telling the story.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I vividly remember when Alison Hargreaves had disappeared on the mountain in 1995 &#8211; we&#8217;d followed her story and everyone wanted her to do well, and then the reality is she was a mother who did not come back. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;My first weekend working was the Hillsborough disaster, I stayed later to do a extra news bulletins because you knew it was something massive.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Reflecting on her career at the BBC, Sally said the power of local radio was still so big&#8230; &#8220;the stories we tell, we reflect from the amazing people in this city and the wider region cannot be underestimated&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;But it&#8217;s not just me, this place is a proper team effort.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sally added she will &#8220;not miss the 04:20 alarm&#8221;, and is looking forward to some more gardening, as well as spending more time at her holiday home in France.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"She has been involved in all the big stories across the patch. &#8220;You think of Toyota, Bombardia, Derby&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":350219,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,157,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-350218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/350219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}