Money People Reporter @theipaper. Multi award winning journo;) Was: N of England corr HuffPost UK; Led JPI Investigations Unit; Lifestyle Editor Lancashire Post

Joined January 2012
'At 73, my week on the state pension from one meal a day to doing my own dentistry' Pensioner Muriel Westworth shares a daily diary of her life & thoughts with @theipaper to lay bare the reality of surviving on the state pension @age_uk @IndependentAge inews.co.uk/news/week-on-sta…
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'I’m terrified my £55,000 pension pot will be slashed by inheritance tax' Margaret Adam, 69 does not want to leave her three sons a financial nightmare after her death. She tells @theipaper changes to inheritance tax and pension funds have left her baffled and confused inews.co.uk/inews-lifestyle/…
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'We inherited a retirement flat. We lost £63,000 after struggling to sell it - it was cruel' Anne and Ashley Smith, both 62, inherited a retirement home after Ashley’s mum Beryl died at 91. They tell @theipaper how it turned into a psychological nightmare and a financial burden @ResourcesShared @HomeOwnersAll @NLC_2019 inews.co.uk/inews-lifestyle/…
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'At 36, I pay £2,000 a month into my pension. My goal is £2m by the time I’m 50' Mike Samuels tells @theipaper how he wants a combined £4m pension pot with his fiancee so they can enjoy financial freedom and invest in health and happiness to have as long a life as possible inews.co.uk/inews-lifestyle/…
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'We’ve spent £500,000 fighting to get our uninsurable luxury homes made safe' Daniel Bruce and Alexandra Druzhinin have spent more than half a million pounds fighting to get their defective ‘luxury’ new-build apartments made safe. They tell @theipaper about the constant terror of living in uninsurable homes @HomeOwnersAll @NLC_2019 @LKPleasehold inews.co.uk/inews-lifestyle/…
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#journorequest Looking to speak to people who are taking their pension cash/tax-free lump sum out early - at 55 or similar - to shield their money before the Budget because they are worried about potential changes. @theipaper If this is you, please contact me at: [email protected] Thanks
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'My mum was scammed out of £2.1m after her Alzheimer’s diagnosis' Ceri Armit tells @theipaper she was devastated when her astute finance director mum was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s disease. Days later, she discovered she had been scammed out of £2.1m @alzheimerssoc @alzassociation @AlzResearchUK inews.co.uk/inews-lifestyle/…
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#journorequest Looking to speak to over-65s who are spending their children's inheritance to take more holidays and enjoy life. (Known as SKI-ing - spending the kids' inheritance). Looking to talk to people who are doing this about why they deserve it - and also the children of parents doing this about their thoughts about it. @theipaper Please email me at: [email protected] Thanks
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#journorequest I’m looking to speak to people who are living in a home which is uninsurable - such as due to flooding risk or any other major factors - and now feel trapped in a home they can’t sell/can’t insure/have been stung financially @theipaper Please email me at: [email protected] Thank you!
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#journorequest I'm looking to speak to ISA millionaires about how you can become an ISA millionaire despite the upcoming cut to the cash ISA contribution limit for @theipaper Please email me at: [email protected] Thanks!
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#journorequest I'm looking to speak to people who are coming off their mortgage rate and going on to a higher one and struggling to cope with/dreading the higher bills for @theipaper Please e-mail me at: [email protected] if this is you. Thanks
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'I’m left with a £35,000 bill and gas pipe that might explode after building row' Adele Greshon tells @theipaper how she has been warned a gas pipe could potentially explode and that 'shoddy' building work will cost at least £35,000 to rectify after she already paid a builder £22,500 for the work @fmbuilders @HomeOwnersAll inews.co.uk/inews-lifestyle/…
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'I retired at 38 and left the UK to travel the world. Life is so cheap, I’ll never run out of money' Nic McCarthy, now 62, tells @theipaper how despite having a lucrative career in the UK playing and teaching piano, he ditched it all for a life abroad. He says he has more money than he'll ever need and has 2 pensions he hasn't touched - and will also be entitled to the UK state pension inews.co.uk/inews-lifestyle/…
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'I secretly work as a cam girl alongside my PR job – I’ve earned tens of thousands' Lorna, 36, tells @theipaper how her side hustle as a cam girl far outstrips her earnings as a PR working in beauty and fashion. She can earn more in 2 hours online than a whole day in her day job inews.co.uk/inews-lifestyle/…
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'I’m a pensioner living on one meal a day – ending the triple lock will destroy me' Tracy Birrell, 68, tells @theipaper how she is mainly surviving on soup and hardly dares to put her heating on. She says life is bad enough now on the basic state pension - and says scrapping triple lock will destroy her @age_uk @AgeUKnews @IndependentAge inews.co.uk/inews-lifestyle/…
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#journorequest I'm looking to speak to parents who have given their adult child/children large sums of money to help them out for whatever reason to share their story for @theipaper If this is you, please email me at: [email protected] Thanks
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#journorequest Looking to speak to pensioners who are already struggling to make ends meet/having to go without as it is already too hard surviving on the state pension - who are worried about the triple lock being scrapped. Please email me at: [email protected]
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'We’re in our 80s, a broadband pole has ruined our dream retirement home' Christine and Michael McCarthy tell @theipaper that an "ugly pole" supplying broadband to a neighbour has ruined the views from their idyllic dream bungalow and spoiled their retirement inews.co.uk/inews-lifestyle/…
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'If you start small with pensions and give them time, they can grow into something huge' World record breaking giant vegetable grower Kevin Fortey, 48, tells @theipaper how he regrets not tending to his pension earlier with the same attention he pays to growing - but he is now changing that inews.co.uk/inews-lifestyle/…
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'I refused a student maintenance loan – now I can’t afford to go to lectures' Eva Morgan, 20, tells @theipaper that rising student living costs and affordability means she has to regularly skip lectures due to mounting transport costs inews.co.uk/inews-lifestyle/…
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