Louise has worked as a journalist since 1978. She started out as a rock writer on a regional listings magazine and is now a freelance journalist and copy-editor. She has covered topics as diverse as technology, cookery, finance, disability and social issues, TV, consumer/lifestyle, culture and media, business, food and health. She has written for a very wide range of publications including the Guardian, Observer, Fabulous, Candis, Screenjabber, New Consumer, Sweet, Your Home, How-Do and Skin Two, to mention just a few. In 2010, she co-founded Manchester’s independent news site, Inside the M60.

Louise is a regular talking head on air discussing everything from epilepsy and regional news provision to being a teenage punk in the 70s, MPs’ expenses and memories of her impossibly glamorous grandmother. She is currently a regular newspaper reviewer on BBC Radio Manchester’s Sunday morning show with Gordon Burns. Her first book, Epilepsy: The Essential Guide, was published in May 2009. She runs the food blog The Lone Gourmet.