Editorial and long form copy
I started out in local news in 2008, reporting for titles like the Luton News and Dunstable Gazette. It was real boots-on-the-ground journalism - door knocks, courtrooms, inquests - and I even ended up interviewing politicians including Nick Clegg, the Milibands, Vince Cable and Harriet Harman.
In 2012 I moved to the MailOnline, then the world’s most-read news site, where I worked on major stories including the Glasgow helicopter crash, Nelson Mandela’s death, Sir Alex Ferguson’s retirement and the birth of Prince George.
Eurostar’s enabled me to keep my editorial muscles warm: I still regularly write the back pages of Metropolitan, the brand’s onboard lifestyle magazine.
Metropolitan magazine
MailOnline
Luton News & Dunstable Gazette
A court report and reaction from a landmark case which saw a group of Luton men prosecuted for a public order offence after branding homecoming British soldiers as ‘baby rapists’ and ‘murderers’ - January 2010
An interview with a self-confessed courtesan who was cleared of running a brothel in a landmark court case - 2009
An exclusive investigation into the scale of violence in secondary schools in Luton - August 2010
An exclusive investigation into how much suspended Town Hall staff were costing Luton Borough Council - December 2009
Brothel raid as part of Operation Turtle - a police crackdown on sex traders in Luton - 2010
Interview with then Foreign Secretary David Miliband - 2010