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Now, if you’ve never heard of Dawn O’Porter, she’s a British writer and TV personality. Married to Emmy -winning Hollywood star Chris O’Dowd ( he…

My new side-hustle | BBC Radio Lancashire

As suspected, my latest career move into radio at BBC Lancashire (Grin & Tonic with Nic and Gem, Sundays 4-6pm – blatant plug) has not…

Five jobs I’ve had including superhero and …

You may not realise this but you are reading the words of a fashionable, life-saving, super-hero, pot-washer. Safe to say we have all done our…

Facebook & Instagram crashed and so did life as …

In an outage which would have given rise to humankind’s worst existential jokes, should anyone have been able to post them, the mighty Facebook and…

Remembering the gadget we all relied on – what …

As a trainee reporter, the fax machine was both the bane of my life plus the magical supplier of stories. Metres of yellow, curling paper,…