Dame Ann Elizabeth Mary Leslie DBE is a British journalist who currently writes for the Daily Mail. Ann Leslie spent her early years in India and Pakistan, before being educated in India and England, where she attended the Presentation Convent School in Matlock, Derbyshire and St Leonards Mayfield school in Sussex and, two years later, Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. Her first job in journalism was on the Daily Express Manchester news desk in 1962. She moved to the Daily Mail in 1967.

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  • Dame Ann Elizabeth Mary Leslie DBE is a British journalist who currently writes for the Daily Mail. Ann Leslie spent her early years in India and Pakistan, before being educated in India and England, where she attended the Presentation Convent School in Matlock, Derbyshire and St Leonards Mayfield school in Sussex and, two years later, Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. Her first job in journalism was on the Daily Express Manchester news desk in 1962. She moved to the Daily Mail in 1967. She went on to interview many film stars, entertainers and other celebrities and to report on wars, conflicts and political stories in around 70 countries. Significant events she has reported on include the fall of the Berlin Wall, the failed coup against Mikhail Gorbachev and Nelson Mandela's final walk to freedom. She has won several British Press Awards and in 1999 was awarded the prestigious James Cameron Award for "an outstanding contribution to journalism". She was also a regular participant in the BBC discussion programme Head to Head and Stop the Week. She was awarded a Damehood on December 30 2006 for her "services to journalism". She still regularly appears on the BBC's 'Newsnight Review' and 'Dateline London.'
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  • Dame Ann Elizabeth Mary Leslie DBE is a British journalist who currently writes for the Daily Mail. Ann Leslie spent her early years in India and Pakistan, before being educated in India and England, where she attended the Presentation Convent School in Matlock, Derbyshire and St Leonards Mayfield school in Sussex and, two years later, Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. Her first job in journalism was on the Daily Express Manchester news desk in 1962. She moved to the Daily Mail in 1967.
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