Archive for October, 2009

I’m quitting the Birmingham Post

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009

*I wrote this post originally for the Birmingham Post website.

I have just volunteered to leave a newspaper I love and a job about which I am passionate.

Last week Trinity Mirror, the company that owns the Birmingham Post, announced 41 journalists in the Midlands are to lose their jobs by the end of the year. I am offering to leave as part of the cull.

Why? (more…)

Elizabeth Fry is my nan

Wednesday, October 14th, 2009

*I wrote this post originally for the Birmingham Post website.

Elizabeth Fry.jpg

See this woman. I’ve just found out that she is my great great great great grandmother. (more…)