A FORMER East Lancashire schoolgirl will be on the broadcasting team ensuring sports fanatics hear all the action from the forthcoming Olympic Games.

Jean Gee, nee Williams, runs her own autocue company in Sydney and she has been contracted onto the BBC contingent covering the games later this month.

Jean's thoughts have been turning to home since she took the BBC job on and now she is looking to contact as many of her old schoolfriends as possible.

Jean and her brother David emigrated with their parents to Australia in 1965.

The pair both attended Shadsworth High School in the early 60s but lost touch with many of their friends when the family moved down under.

Jean started working for an Australian television company but eventually began her own company providing autocue facilities to television and conference lecturers.

Her brother David breeds and breaks-in horses in Tamworth, 200 miles north of Sydney.

Good friends of Jean's, Amy and Bill Neild, are helping Jean to locate some of her old friends.

Mrs Neild, of Beech Close, Clayton-le-Dale, said: "Jean and David still think proudly of themselves as Lancastrians and they want to trace their friends.

"Jean was married just recently to Bob who she first met in the early 70s .

"They lost touch until three years ago and when they met up again love blossomed!

"Jean is keen now to go back to her roots and find some more old friends."

Anyone who would like to get in touch with Jean and David should contact Mrs and Mrs Neild on 01254 247091.

Picture: Jean Gee, from Shadsworth in Blackburn, with husband Bob at their Sydney wedding