Kate Adie has quit as a frontline BBC news reporter on the eve of the expected war with Iraq – after a 34-year career spanning conflicts from China to Libya, Kuwait and most recently the war in Aghanistan.
Why was Kate Adie adopted?
Like many children born during “the enormous upheaval of war”, as she put it herself, former BBC chief news correspondent Kate Adie was the by-product of a love affair, which led to her birth mother, Babe Dunnett, being forced to give her up for adoption.