In 1997 she became the Environment Correspondent for BBC Television News, winning the top environment award – a BEMA, as Television Environment Journalist of the Year – for her work on global warming, and the developing BSE and CJD crisis. She was appointed as Home and Legal Affairs Correspondent for BBC Television News in January 2000. In her role as Home and Legal Affairs Correspondent for BBC Television News, Gilmore's brief included terrorism and homeland security, policing, asylum, crime and race relations. Most recently, she has reported on the aftermath of the 7 July 2005 London bombings, the new UK terrorism legislation and the proposed introduction of ID cards. She left the BBC at the height of her career to pursue a wider range of activities. She was elected to the Board of the Food Standards Agency where she has served for six years as a non-executive director and Chair of its Risk Committee.