Experience

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  CityJet

  • Features writer

    • 2010 - Present

    I contribute articles on all manner of topics, to CityJet's newly relaunched in-flight magazine Velocity.

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  Pier Marketing

  • Felixstowe

  • Copywriter

    • 2010 - Present
    • Felixstowe

    Researching and preparing press releases and copy for clients of this award-winning agency.

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  The Institute of the Motor Industry

  • Features writer

    • 2008 - Present

    Writing features for the IMI magazine

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  www.2cs.com

  • consultant copywriter

    • 2007 - Present

    For 2Cs, the East of England's leading communications agency, I write all manner of copy, including copy for client websites, marketing and PR materials, newsletters and annual reports. Clients are wide-ranging and many are heavily involved in clean-tech and renewable energy.

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  Retail Motor Industry Federation

  • Magazine Editor

    • 2005 - Present

    I edit the RMI's member magazine, Automotive Insight, distributed to a membership (currently 8,000 and growing) that is involved in all aspects of the automotive aftermarket from new franchised dealers, to independent repair workshops to fuel retailing.

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  Freemans Freelance

  • Freelance journalist and copy writer

    • 1990 - Present

    A freelance journalist, Editor and copywriter for the past 18 years, I trained on regional newspapers, was Chief Reporter on The Journal in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, then Industrial Correspondent on The Sun and Today newspapers.

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  The Sun newspaper

  • Industrial Correspondent

    • 1984 - 1988

    During a decade that changed the face of Britain, I worked on The Sun reporting on the miner's strike, the print dispute, riots in central London, and the Maggie Thatcher government that made Tony Blair's possible.