Miss Lindsay Cook

Career: trainee journalist Grimsby Evening Telegraph 1969-74, reporter and consumer writer Morning Telegraph Sheffield 1974-76, freelance writer Sunday Times 1976-77, freelance contrib Money Mail (pt of Daily Mail) 1977-79, United Newspapers London 1977-86 (number 3 on newsdesk, features dept, dep London ed 1984), personal finance ed The Daily Telegraph 1986-89; The Times: money ed 1990-93, dep business ed 1993-94, business ed 1994-97; managing ed The Express 1997-98, gp managing ed and dir Express Newspapers 1998-2001 (editorial devpt dir 1998-2001), media conslt 2001-03, editorial dir CMP Information 2004-; Personal Finance Journalist of the Year 1987

Books and Publications: The Money Diet, Three Months To Financial Fitness (1986), Working Mum: The Survival Guide (2000)