{"id":944047,"date":"2026-05-07T15:17:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T15:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/944047\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T15:17:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T15:17:16","slug":"radio-cumbria-newsreader-leaves-after-decades-on-home-county-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/944047\/","title":{"rendered":"Radio Cumbria newsreader leaves after decades on home county news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wainwright also broke news of national importance, including the Brexit result in 2016 and the London bombings in 2005.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve thoroughly enjoyed it, but I&#8217;ve had a good innings and I do genuinely believe that every generation has to move on, make way for somebody else to do it and I think that time has come for me now,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Listeners messaged and called into the breakfast show, presented by Mike Zeller, as the pair reminisced about Wainwright&#8217;s career.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">One said: &#8220;I&#8217;ll miss your heavenly voice and no nonsense approach to life. Thanks for the years of excellent broadcasting.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Others said they would &#8220;miss Heather&#8217;s excellent news reading and banter&#8221; and said her &#8220;shoes will be hard to fill&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Zeller, who worked with Wainwright on the show for about 10 years, told her: &#8220;The whole thing has been brilliant, your whole career has been brilliant, working with you has been wonderful.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wainwright also broke news of national importance, including the Brexit result in 2016 and the London bombings in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":944048,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3936],"tags":[77,269,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-944047","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-music","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116533962582203966","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=944047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/944048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=944047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=944047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=944047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}