Journalistic Samples
Finance blog for ClearScore. Credit Cards for Bad Credit: Need a credit card for bad credit? There are still cards you can apply for – as well as use to build up your credit score. What’s a bad credit score? Well, lenders are careful about who they’ll offer financial services such as mortgages, bank accounts and loans. They use a credit score to decide if they want to make their product available to you. You might have ... Read more
Read MoreHire A Toyota Hybrid Eco Car and Get a Complimentary Tank of Fuel! At Lima Autos, we’re celebrating the launch of our fleet of Toyota Hybrid hire cars. We’re giving away a tank full of fuel when you rent one of our new energy-efficient cars. But act fast: this opening offer’s on for one month only. To grab it, simply rent a Hybrid for a week. Hire one of our new 250 energy-efficient … Read more here
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Read MoreJobs Boost For Midlands With New Eco Hotel Opening: International hotel operator Ecotek Group plc announces the launch of its UK flagship green hotel, the Ecotek Midlands, in Birmingham. Circa 70 new jobs are to be created in advance of the official hotel opening in December 2016. The 153-room hotel is located five miles from Birmingham City Centre and 1.5 miles from Birmingham Airport...
Read MoreInformation blog for gardening company Waltons: So what’s the purpose of your garden building? Is it a little workshop for stashing paint where you tinker on odd jobs? Or a potting shed for frost-free storage of tools and seeds? Maybe it’s your quiet haven to work away from the main house? Garden buildings work wonderfully as four-season summerhouses... Read more
Read MoreBBC News. At the moment Gabon, in West Africa, is reliant on oil for its income. But with supplies due to run out by 2020, the nation is keen to turn some of the virgin equatorial forest - full of elephants, chimps, gorillas, mandrills, hippos and leopards - into national parks for tourists ... Read here.
Read MoreGabon Magazine: As scientists from the Pasteur Institute embark on the first study of the genome of the Gabonese population, DNA research in the US leads actor Samuel L Jackson to trace his roots. Slavery had stripped Jackson of the knowledge of his roots, as it has so many African-Americans. However, DNA and ... Read here.
Read MoreEverything Spain: Flamenco star Joaquín Cortés is in the UK for the première of his show at the Royal Albert Hall. This is the bare-torso-ed superstar described by the BBC as “the sexiest Spanish icon since Banderas”, whose fleet footwork so fired up Italian film director Bertolucci ... Read here.
Read MoreDaily Mail: Lying on the deck of the Balearic Breezer, its white sails billowing as it cruises across the Bay of Pollensa, I feel glamorous. We sail into Formentor Bay, a golden strip of sand enclosed by pine-forested hillsides where the water is shades of cobalt and aquamarine. Trailing my hand in it, I see a champagne cork bobbing... Read here.
Sunday Times: Sarah Monaghan discovers the remote islands of Sao Tome and Principe (original behind paywall here). I am in a fairy-tale scene. The jungle has wreathed its way into the abandoned buildings as if they were Mayan temples. Read here.
Read MoreGabon Magazine: As dawn breaks on the province of Woleu-Ntem in north Gabon, the plantations begin to fill with activity as the tappers arrive. From first light until mid-morning ... Read here.
Read MoreGabon Magazine: With settings from Out of Africa to the Heart of Darkness, Loango National Park offers such a varied landscape that, as Sarah Monaghan discovers, each day’s safari is a new episode... Read here.
Read MoreEverything Spain: Taking on the renovation of a medieval masía in the heart of Catalonia has been an epic project for Times columnist and broadcaster Matthew Parris. The result is spectacular. He welcomes Sarah Monaghan to his castle... Read here.
Read MoreArticle for international property company 56Paris Real Estate: Part-financing your dream home in the French capital with paying guests. What you need to know about short term rental in Paris. Our advice follows news that the Mairie de Paris (Paris City Hall) made surprise visits earlier this month to properties in the 1st and 6th arrondissements... Read here.
Read MoreArticle for BBC Radio 4's From Our Own Correspondent: Recent events have seen Dubai reel from economic crisis. Sarah Monaghan revisits the city and discovers that this has had profound effects on the personality of the glitzy Gulf emirate. Standing on the outdoor observation deck of the Burj Khalifa, with its floor-to-ceiling glass walls, I am so high above the earth that it feels as if I am on the wing of an aeroplane ... Read here.
Read MoreGeographical Magazine: Sarah Monaghan reports from the Smithsonian Institute's base on the oilfields of Gabon. I saw my first elephant pretty well as soon as I touched down at Gamba Airport – on a runway that is a strip of red earth slicing through the forest. A handsome male, with the straight tannin-stained tusks typical of the African forest variety ... Read here
Read MoreThe Telegraph: Sarah Monaghan reports on the benefits of bilingual and trilingual language development in children. Professor Tony Cline of Luton University is an educational psychologist specialising in language development in children. He says we have revised our image of how the brain works. "We used to think it had a limited capacity, like a milk bottle, and that it ...
Read MoreGabon Magazine: Article about the West African timber trade. It's only from the air that you grasp the magnitude of Gabon’s tropical forests. When my plane takes off from Libreville International Airport, I can see below the Presidential Palace, a building ... Read here.
Read MoreThe Lady Magazine: Sarah Monaghan boards the narrow gauge Transcantábrico through Northern Spain. Voyeurism is half the pleasure of rail travel and on a train like this, what can you do but stare out the window and enjoy the metronomic beat of wheel over track and glimpses of lives caught in motion? Read here.
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