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Samantha set her heart on becoming a journalist age 13 and spent most of her school holidays working for local newspapers. She now specialises in financial and consumer journalism and has worked for national newspapers, helped launch websites and contributed to women’s and specialist magazines. In 2009 age 38 she gave birth to a daughter Imogen, now 3. Samantha has a degree in Government from Essex University (2i) and is an NCTJ qualified news reporter. She is engaged to Andrew, and they are getting married this summer with their daughter as bridesmaid. Read more of Samantha’s articles…
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Ruth was born in north London and has worked in communications including nine years running her own consultancy. Some of Ruth’s clients have included politicians, local authorities and the NHS. She has two grown up sons and has worked full time since they were born. In 2005, she met her partner James and in 2009 they scraped their savings together to buy a shell of a house in northern Tuscany (Italy), it was a dream come true for them but has not been without its challenges. Ruth’s blog is the story of the biggest adventure of her life so far.
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After a career in British national newspapers, Bill and his partner Lynne Bateson emigrated to Pasadena in 2006 and became US citizens in November 2011. While still writing a weekly financial advice column for the London Sunday Times, Bill has been getting to grips with California’s head-spinning combination of “have a nice day” and trigger-happy police. He has two sons working in London and gets up at crack of dawn to watch English soccer on TV, yet has somehow found time to become a movie screenwriter and stand-up comic. Bill sees his west coast life as an endless succession of sunlit snapshots – King Lear meets Ricky Gervais and Denny’s Grand Slam Breakfast – that he regularly pastes into his blog.
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Geordie Clarke is deputy editor of Money Management, a Financial Times magazine. Originally from Canada, he is a financial journalist, a keen cyclist and a wine enthusiast. He recently signed up to study the WSET Level 2 Award in wine and spirits.
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