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Kathryn Apanowicz
FOR four decades, the YTV studios in Leeds have almost been a second home to Kathryn Apanowicz - the partner of Richard Whiteley, the much-missed presenter of Countdown and one of the great voices of Yorkshire.
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It was where her television career began in the late 1960s when, as a nine-year-old, she was one of the presenters of Junior Showtime. Her last visit to the site was a few months ago, when Carol Vorderman bowed out of Countdown.
She knew, then, that the studio's days were numbered - and yesterday's closure announcement came as no surprise.
"ITV should have left the numbers to Carol, shouldn't they?" Ms Apanowicz told the Yorkshire Post.
"When I was there as a young...