Personal Life
Barnes had two children. The eldest, Clare, was from her 6-year relationship with former Labour Foreign Office minister Denis MacShane. Clare Barnes was born in 1979 and died in March 2004 in a skydiving accident near Melbourne, Australia. Her son James was born a year after she married ITN cameraman Nigel Thomson in 1981.
A keen golfer and one-time qualified private pilot, Barnes resided in Brighton, and became a local magistrate in 1999 after leaving ITN, until forced to stand down after being convicted of a drink-driving offence in 2004, shortly after her daughter's death.
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