Background
Alexander was born and brought up in Aldershot in Hampshire. Her mother was a doctor and her father was an aeronautical engineer and she has two brothers.
Alexander was born and brought up in Aldershot in Hampshire. Her mother was a doctor and her father was an aeronautical engineer and she has two brothers.
University of Birmingham.
After attending the independent Frensham Heights School, Alexander read English at the University of Birmingham, gaining a degree in 1973. She started a Postgraduate Certificate in Education course which she did not complete. Alexander initially worked for the British Broadcasting Corporation at Pebble Mill for British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 4 (where she worked on You and Yours, Checkpoint and Woman"s Hour).
She then worked on British Broadcasting Corporation Midlands Today from the 1970s onwards, at one time being a main anchor.
In 1992 she left the evening slot, and mainly presented the breakfast and lunchtime bulletins, three days a week. Her regular co-presenters included Tom Coyne, Alan Towers, Sue Beardsmore and David Davies.
In October 2003, the Royal Television Society presented her with a Special Award to mark thirty years in television Alexander, one of the Midlands" most popular and recognisable television faces, retired after presenting her last news bulletin on Midlands Today"s lunchtime news on 30 October 2012, and the next evening appeared on air for the last time to receive her colleagues" congratulations.