Life and career

She began her TV career with Live TV as a news reporter, then went on to front S2 Live on the now defunct SMG digital channel S2. The BBC

BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...

 approached Sarah but STV Central offered Sarah presenting work on the news programme, Scotland Today

Scotland Today

Scotland Today was a Scottish regional news programme covering Central Scotland, produced by STV Central . Despite its name suggesting a national remit, the programme was actually limited to stories around STV's Central Belt franchise...

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In 2006, due to mass redundancies at STV, Heaney took voluntary redundancy, and left Scotland Today in March. In September she returned to host Big Hearts, Big Night. She returned again in March 2008 as a guest for the station's online video blog, The Real MacKay.

Sarah lives in London with her jeweller husband Ed Adams. Their first child, Edward William Adams, was born in the summer of 2006. They had a second son, Will, in May 2008.

Heaney fronted a crime programme with news reader Mark Austin for ITV

ITV

ITV is the major commercial public service TV network in the United Kingdom. Launched in 1955 under the auspices of the Independent Television Authority to provide competition to the BBC, it is also the oldest commercial network in the UK...

. Manhunt - Solving Britain's Crimes

Manhunt - Solving Britain's Crimes

Manhunt - Solving Britain's Crimes is a programme aired by ITV in the UK. It is very similar to the BBC's Crimewatch, which ran for 22 years prior to the first airing of Manhunt, on 4 December 2006. A second edition of the programme aired on 29 May 2007.Manhunt profiles 10 of the country's most...

where Heaney and Austin appeal to the public for information on the UK's most wanted criminals. The series was not re-commissioned.

In 2008, she joined Mark Durden-Smith

Mark Durden-Smith

Mark Durden-Smith is a British television presenter. He began his presenting career as host of Sky Sports live rugby union coverage, which included weekly English Premiership fixtures, domestic and European cup competitions and Internationals Tests, including the English home Six Nations matches...

 on Wish You Were Here...? Now & Then

Wish You Were Here...?

Wish You Were Here...? is a British television show that was first broadcast on 7th January 1974 on ITV. It was a series of 30 minute shows about travel and holidays. The show was broadcast during peak viewing hours and had gained a significant viewing audience in the UK...

, a 25-part series where the hosts revisit destinations, originally visited by Judith Chalmers

Judith Chalmers

Judith Chalmers OBE is an English television presenter who is best known for presenting the travel programme Wish You Were Here...? in the 1970s and 1980s, where she often appeared in a bikini.-Early life and career:...

(Mark's mother) and other WYWH? presenters in the original 1974 series, to see how much they have changed. The series was not been re-commissioned.