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I work at My London news writing both news and features.
I gained a gold standard NCTJ diploma with News Associates, including 100wpm shorthand.
I have experience working at lifestyle magazines including Good Housekeeping, Stylist, The Times Magazine and The Mirror's weekend supplements, as well as home news at The Telegraph, a London news agency and local newspaper, The South West Londoner.
I have an interest in features and human interest stories, food, beauty and lifestyle writing.
I came around lying on the Post Office floor, strangers crowding around me, a paramedic kneeling beside me. "Can you tell me your name love," the man said in a thick Yorkshire accent. "Ellie," I said, starting to cry, "I've had a seizure again, haven't I?"
London is a weird bubble in many respects - politically, socially and culturally. That's not to say it isn't a wonderful city, but it's important to try to get out of the bubble and see that where you are in life is very different from your peers across the rest of the country and that you have some catching up to do.
Three years ago Aoife Bell hit rock bottom. She was in her third year at university but had to live at home for a while, and this seemingly insignificant move led her on a downward spiral into a deep depression.
Around 80 per cent of homeless people have mental health issues and despite their great need for support, being homeless actually reduces the chance of receiving help.
Londoners by their very nature are conditioned to hate tourists. Their sins are plentiful; key examples being when they stop abruptly in Tube stations and stand in the middle of busy pavements to take pictures. To sum it up simply, tourists just generally get in the way.
Journalist Cassandra Jardine was the linchpin of the Telegraph features desk for 23 years. She died in 2012, and together with Cass's husband, William Chubb, we launched the Cassandra Jardine Memorial Prize, open to women writers aged between 18 and 25. This article is this year's runner-up.
London is unquestionably one of the major cultural hubs of the world. With its huge number of museums you'll never run out of things to do, but have you ever been to an exhibition in London? They're somehow more special, bringing together special collections of paintings, artefacts and more - often pieces that may never have been in the same room before.
Whether or not you are from London, when you think of fine dining you think of The Ritz. Its grand Parisian facade and bright lights are iconic, and the name alone conjures up romantic ideas of luxury. But what is it really like to have dinner in the splendour of The Ritz?
The IRA bombed Harrods 35 years ago this week, targeting young children and mothers Christmas shopping - one witness who was eight at the time talks about how this experience has affected her life.
A Tooting resident launched the campaign #DumpTheScales 6 months ago and has gained huge support with 67,000 signatures on her petition and an Early Day Motion tabled by 31 MPs. Hope Virgo, 27, started the campaign after being told she wasn't eligible for support with her eating disorder because she wasn't thin enough, and has since spoken to many others who've had the same experience.