My friend Beccy Barr, who has died aged 46 from abdominal cancer, was at the top of her game as a regional TV presenter when she quit, aged 41, and became a firefighter.
Her new colleagues at Lancashire Fire and Rescue were initially suspicious when this glamorous woman swapped the sofa on BBC North West Tonight for night shifts with Red Watch in Blackburn, with some of them suspecting she was secretly recording an exposé for Panorama.
