Background
She was born in Carmarthen, South Wales, with her older sister and three younger brothers.
She was born in Carmarthen, South Wales, with her older sister and three younger brothers.
Her first jobs were working in Tesco and The Ivy Bush hotel in Carmarthen. After training and working for British Broadcasting Corporation Wales, where she worked Welsh language programme Bilidowcar for children, Mair joined Llanelli-based independent television production company Tinopolis in 1991. When Tinopolis produced both programs from Cardiff, for a time she presented both the English language British Broadcasting Corporation Wales news Wales Today from 18:30 to 19:00, as well as the Welsh S4C Wedi 7 from 19:00 to 19:30.
Mair still presents Wedi7, and is Executive Director for Tinopolis, where by 2006 she held 2.86% of the shares.
After a challenge from a colleague, Mair ran her first full marathon in New York city in 1991, in a time of 3:29:00. The amazing result for a beginner meant she kept training and entered the trials for the Great Britain athletics squad for the 1997 World Championships in Athens, Greece, where she came 23rd in the Women"s Marathon in a time of 2:42:31.
Mair wrote a column in Wales on Sunday newspaper. The family live in Llanbedr-y-fro in the Vale of Glamorgan.
