After five years working in press and campaigns for the RSPB, CSV and Comic Relief, I knew that I wanted to ask the awkward questions rather than answering them. That meant re-training at City University to gain the BJTC diploma, after which I spent a year working with local journalists in Kosovo to ensure fair reporting of elections as part of encouraging a more independent, rigorous media.

Now freelancing from the northwest, I regularly cover stories throughout Greater Manchester, the Midlands, north Wales, Merseyside, the central Pennine stretch over to Yorkshire and up to Tyneside.

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