Before Politics
She went to the SHAPE High School in Mons in Belgium, then Barne Barton Secondary Modern school in St Budeaux and Stoke Damerel High School for Girls (now called Stoke Damerel Community College) in Stoke, Plymouth. She studied for a BSc in Geography whilst at St. Aidan's College of University of Durham, being taught by David Bellamy, and graduated in 1981.
She wrote and worked on women's weekly magazines, being deputy chief sub-editor of Bella, senior sub-editor of Chat and chief sub-editor of Woman.
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