Former BBC Watchdog presenter and cancer campaigner Lynn Faulds Wood has died at the age of 72. A statement from her family said: “Having suffered a massive stroke last night and a subsequent bleed on the brain, presenter and journalist Lynn Faulds Wood passed away peacefully at 12 noon today with her husband John Stapleton and son Nick at her bedside.” Faulds Wood's TV career began in the early 1980s when she worked on the breakfast show show TV-AM.
She then moved to another BBC programme, Breakfast Time, before hosting Watchdog. Faulds Wood hosted the consumer rights programme alongside her husband between 1985 and 1993, and during their tenure the show became a huge primetime hit.
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