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Personal
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Vivienne Crow
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| Address |
8 Northwood Crescent
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Carlisle
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Cumbria
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| Postcode |
CA3 9BP
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| Phone |
01228 527193
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07779 772153
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| Email |
viviennecrow@hotmail.com
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| Vivienne is a freelance journalist specialising in outdoor and travel writing for newspapers, magazines, books and tourism/conservation organisations. She has been a full-time journalist since 1990. Having started her career as a reporter on local newspapers, she moved on to edit a business-to-business magazine and then went back into regional newspapers as a sub-editor on busy evening titles. She maintains her skills on the production side of things by acting as a page designer and sub-editor for a monthly farming title in Cumbria.
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Writer and editor of weekly outdoors columns (including “Weekend Walk”) in The Cumberland News, the Times & Star and The Whitehaven News.
Occasional outdoor/travel features for various publications, including TGO, the News & Star, the Sydney Morning Herald and Scanorama (SAS's inflight magazine).
Interpretative leaflets, walks booklets and information panels for tourism/conservation organisations, including North Pennines AONB, Eden Rivers Trust, East Cumbria Countryside Project and various local councils.
Editor/compiler of TripAdvisor Summer Travel Guides (2006) for the Amalfi Coast, Cote D’Azur, London, Sydney, Hong Kong and Paris.
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Easy Rambles Around Keswick and Borrowdale (Questa Publishing, 2008)
Easy Rambles Around Grasmere and Borrowdale (Questa Publishing, 2008)
Major contributor to Crimson Publishing's The Best of Britain: The Lake District (2008)
Walk! The Lake District North (Discovery Walking Guides, January 2006)
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| Main areas of interest | |
Walking (especially the Lake District, Howgills, Yorkshire Dales, Northumberland and southern Scotland)
Kayaking
Countryside and access issues
General travel (especially India and Canada)
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