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Helen Backway was Deputy News Editor at News Shopper from February 2006 and took over as News Editor in April 2007.
The job involves running a busy news desk covering south east London and north Kent with 12 reporters.
The 29-year-old lives in Streatham.
Posted at 4:29pm Wednesday 3rd September 2008
Still looking
It’s been a couple of weeks since my last blog about my search for a flatmate but I still haven’t found my perfect roomie.
Posted at 11:39am Thursday 21st August 2008
Plane crash or glitter more worthy?
The story that everyone is talking about today is the horrific plane crash in Madrid.
Posted at 4:26pm Sunday 17th August 2008
Roommate required
After four and a half years of sharing my flat with two successive friends, I am having to advertise for a new roommate.
Posted at 11:09am Wednesday 13th August 2008
Olympics not singing the right tune
Our society is becoming more and more obsessed with appearance and this is demonstrated perfectly in the story about Lin Miaoke miming to a song by Yang Peiyi at the Olympics because seven year old Yang was not deemed pretty enough.
Posted at 11:57am Monday 14th July 2008
But where in London?
At the risk of sounding like a grumpy news editor, I feel I must have another moan.
Posted at 12:35pm Thursday 10th July 2008
I was that learner too
I had a lot of sympathy after reading the story about learner driver Teresa Clarke who has just passed her test after 27 years.
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