Exclusives
- Led all trade and national newspapers in the late 1980s on the campaign to change the Sunday trading laws. Often cited as “the leading authority in Europe” on the issue
- Uncovered a fruit and veg relabelling scam during the apartheid era whereby produce was relabelled as produce of Bophuthatswana to get around sanctions - 1988
- Broke the story that a consortium called Isosceles was going to mount a bid for the Gateway supermarket group and that four of the Gateway board were backing the consortium. There were rumours I had bugged the boardroom. I had not, of course – I just had excellent sources
- The arrival of Aldi in the UK
- Covered a gun siege at a chemist’s as a rookie trainee in 1984. I was the only one who discovered the name of the woman held hostage while the siege was in progress – appeared on front page of The Evening Standard
- Food tampering scares – the Financial Times called on my expertise in this area to write for the newspaper
- In the late 1980s and early 1990s I got a series of exclusives about Tesco because of good sources I had cultivated
- Led the press on the arrival of Costco in the UK
- Led the coverage of the salmonella-in-eggs scare (“Currie Gate”) and BSE – The Sunday Times frequently contacted me for information
- Led coverage of the formaldehyde/chemical hair-straightening controversy in the hairdressing press and provided research on the subject for the national press.
Exclusives