About Me

I am a trained multimedia journalist with News Associates. I studied English Literature at the University of Bristol and I have words in the Londoners, Nub News, Bristol 24/7 and Epigram.

I am based in London, UK.

My Work

Richmond Mind sets new record with 100-mile challenge

As the month of May draws to a close, Nub News would like to honour the more than 150 participants that ran, walked, swam, cycled and danced their way to 100 miles in the month of May. With Mental Health Awareness Week falling in May, which also happens to be National Walking Month, the 100 miles challenge offered a perfect combination of the two. Richmond Mind is an independently funded charity supporting over 4,600 people each year across the borough who are struggling with their mental health...

Twickenham local hero honoured by Hounslow Mayor for outstanding community impact

What is the weirdest thing you have found? "A gun, in a ditch on the Hillingdon border. Last summer when the weather was really dry, I spotted something in the mud, pulled it out and it was a shotgun."In an interview with Nub News, Mark Hardy, front-of-house manager at Thai Upon Thames, recounts his most shocking discovery over many years of litter picking. Thai Upon Thames, which opened more than 27 years ago, is an old established restaurant on Richmond Road that offers a warm atmosphere, frie...

“I feel very honoured to try”: Woman to swim English Channel a century on from first to make the crossing

With a gruelling twenty-one miles of cold, choppy sea, the English Channel has challenged even the best long-distance swimmers. Before 1926, no female swimmer had successfully made the trip, until 19-year-old Gertrude Ederle made history with a record-breaking swim. This summer, Bryony Rowe will mark the centenary of Ederle’s monumental achievement with an attempt of her own. 


“It feels daunting knowing you can’t get out. A weirdly claustrophobic feeling.” 


Rowe recalls a particularly cold...

Dolly Parton's Imagination Library launches in Hackney

Hackney has become a new official site for Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library, the largest early-childhood book gifting programme in the world. Founded by American singer-songwriter and actress Parton, 80, in 1995, the initiative provides young children with books delivered straight to their door every month. The programme became available to children up to the age of five living in Hackney, north east London, on World Book Day, and is completely free to join. The scheme has reached countries al...

Love Letters exhibition brings record crowds to National Archives

The National Archive’s ‘Love Letters’ exhibit has been an unparalleled success, drawing its highest ever visitor count in a single day.  


On Valentine’s Day, the free exhibition, located in Kew, Richmond, drew 759 people to the National Archives, a stark increase from the rolling weekly average of 158 visitors per day. 


Brought to life by a team of talented curators, the exhibit documents the intimate declarations of love from a range of unknown scribes, royalty and literary icons includin...