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Heather Foord is an Australian television journalist and presenter. Foord, a presenter with Channel Nine Brisbane for over 20 years, co-anchored Nine News Queensland with Bruce Paige until 5 December 2008, and has also co-anchored the weekend news in the past. For a duration of three weeks from Monday, 8 October 2007, Foord also presented the news bulletins for the Nine Network's Today program, an additional duty requiring her to fly between Sydney and Brisbane daily.
Foord attended Brisbane State High School for her secondary education. After graduating from the University of Queensland, Foord worked with Good Morning Australia at Network Ten before joining Nine News as a reporter. She quickly made the transition to news reader, taking a weekend hosting position after 6 months.
While her daughters India, Grace, Riley and Maya were young, Heather returned to the weekend news desk so she could spend more time with her family, but returned to the main desk in 2003 where she continues to this day.
On the evening of Friday 21 November 2008, Heather announced that she would be leaving Nine News after 21 years. She was replaced by Melissa Downes.
Aside from working on Nine News, Foord is an advocate supporting sufferers of cerebral palsy, a condition which affects her nephew.
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