Nan Winton, the BBC's first-ever female newsreader, has died aged 93.
She passed away in hospital on Saturday, May 11, three days after falling at her home in Bridport, Dorset.
The journalist, also known as Nancy Wigginton, became the first woman to read on the BBC News in a broadcast on June 20, 1960.
Winton read several 6pm news and weekend bulletins as part of what the corporation said at the time was "an experiment".
By then ITN had already been featuring Barbara Mandell in regular TV appearances since 1955.
But BBC audience research found some viewers thought a woman reading the news for the public broadcaster was "not acceptable", and she was removed in March 1961.
Winton went on to pursue a distinguished career working for Panorama and Town and Around, a nightly magazine show.
It wasn't until 15 years later that Angela Rippon became the channel's first regular female newsreader on the flagship Nine O' Clock News in 1975.
An inquest was opened at Bournemouth Coroner's Court on 16 May.
