After Dinner Speakers: Julia Somerville, Derek Hatton, Showaddywaddy

Julia Somerville is co-presenter of ITN's Lunchtime News and also deputises as presenter of News at Ten in Sir Trevor McDonalds absence. In addition she presents 3D, a weekly ITV current affairs programme. Julia joined ITN in 1987 from the BBC where she had been a senior presenter of the Nine O’clock News. During her time at ITN she has presented the entire main weekday and weekend programmes. After graduating from Sussex University Julia joined IPC, working on Homes and Gardens and Women's Journal and then joined the PR section of Women's Own. Before joining the BBC she spent two years as editor of a computer group's house magazine. Julia is an active charity campaigner, offering her patronage to cancer charities, having recovered well from a brain tumour in 1993. Julia is a television journalism big hitter who presents with wonderful clarity.