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August 27, 2010

BBC reporter who battled back from lupus to become an artist

By Dominic wireposts

Former BBC journalist Triona Holden writes in the Daily Mail today of being pensioned off from the corporation due to ill health at the age of 40 and then reinventing herself as an artist.

Holden left the corporation ten years ago after contracting lupus and details her battle with the disease which affects 60,000 people in the UK.

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