Never sure what to write in things like this. Best go for the potted history of my life:
Failed a set of A-Levels in spectacular fashion - cheers, Holy Cross - and wound up stacking shelves for a living. Decided there was more to life than Asda Bury and enrolled for more A-Levels with the aim of doing a degree in Journalism.
Passed second set of A-Levels at Bury College in 2002 and started degree at University of Central Lancashire later that year. Finally graduated this year after further exam-related woe.
I spent the year immediately after university working as a laughably-titled 'Web Journalist' for the University of Manchester. The job was nothing like journalism, as I began to find out by having work published on the BBC Manchester website, in Bury's matchday programme, a Manchester 'celebrity' magazine and, somewhat bizarrely, More magazine.
Thanks to my continued efforts in working for the BBC without payment, I was offered a paid position as a Broadcast Journalist on North West Tonight which I accepted in December 2006. So that's where I am now.
There. Glad you clicked on me, aren't you?
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"To be born Italian and male is to have won first prize in the lottery of life" goes the saying.
Unfortunately, I was born in the North West of England.
News just in: Christ's abilities 'exaggerated'
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