05.10.2020

News article on a woman convicted of an appalling sex attack on a dog. 

09.-14.09.2020:

Work as a stringer / fixer on the Maddie McCann story. 

07.09.2020 September:

Research and interviews with key airports across Germany in relation to the affect of Corona testing programme's on daily business and passenger rates. 

25.08.2020

Research and interviews with organisations, institutions and publications about the affect of corona on the financial sector in Frankfurt, home of the European Central Bank (ECB) and the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. 

24.08.2020.

Article in The Mirror on a German national who told police he found incriminating evidence on top suspect in the Maddie McCann case. 

10.08.2020: Exclusive interview for The Mirror with a German politician with key information about the ECJ and the top suspect in the Maddie McCann case. 

06-8-08.2020

Background research into the German angle on the Natalie Bracht story. 

Article published in The Mirror in relation to the Maddie McCann case, the top suspect in this case and his bid for an early release from prison. 

28.08.2020 - 31.08.2020 Research, reporting and German - English interpretation for journalists from The Daily Mail and The Mirror in Hanover and Braunschweig in connection with the Maddie McCann case. 

18 / 19th July, 2020:

German-English interpreting / journalistic research during interviews conducted in Schweinfurt, Bavaria, in connection with a former female acquaintance of Germany's prime suspect in the Maddie McCann case. This comes in wake of a report in the Portugese media claiming that the lady had acted as a "partner in crime", providing the suspect with tip-offs on which hotel resorts to steal from.

03.12.2020 /16.12.2020

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Commissioned research in relation to the trial being held at the European Court of Justice (ECJ) regarding the legal of team representing Germany's prime suspect in the Maddie McCann case. 

29.062020: 

News article on the prime suspect in the German investigation into the Maddie McCann case. 

June 2020:

Working as a fixer / stringer for The Daily Mail on the Madeleine McCann case and the prime suspect. Attending press conferences, arranging and conducting telephone / face-to-face interviews in German with public prosecution offices in Braunschweig, Kiel and Flensburg, alongside former friends and acquaintances of the suspect.

March / April 2020:

Commissioned background research into Germany's handling of the coronavirus crisis. Organising interviews with leading players within the German medical community, on behalf of the British newspaper, The Daily Mail.  Article by Robert Hardman. 

March 2020:

News feature article published on a ground-breaking ruling by the German supreme court on the issue of assisted-suicide. 

February 2020:

A double-page feature article for The Lancet medical magazine on medical shortages in Europe. 'Europe facing worsening medical shortages'. 

November, 2019:

Research, interviews and article on the Monowalker hiking cart, used by the German military and gaining increasing interest from European armies. 

October, 2019:

Arranging and conducting interviews on behalf of Senior Staff Writer, Robert Hardman on the theme of how Germany manages the issue of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Interviews with GDR shops, employment specialists for former East Germans returning east, editors of former East German government newspapers, GDR museum director, former Stasi prison museum director etc. 

July 2019:

Research into Motsi Mabuse and her life in Germany. Review of related German press articles and her German-lanaguage autobiography. Interviews with former dancing colleagues and contacts. 

January 2019:

Article on the construction of a major bridge in Ulm, near Munich.  Here robust Nord Lock bolts were used to guarantee stability. 

January 2019:

Researching the German Mittelstand (SME) landscape, arranging face-to-face and telephone interviews in Düsseldorf with related factories, commerce/trade institutions (IHK, DMB) and economic publications, including Handelsblatt. 

January 2018:

Centre-spread piece on an award-winning team from Renault trucks. This small group won the prestigous RTEC competition in 2017. 

December 2018 / January 2019:

Feature article for UPM Paper, arranged via Spoon Publishing OY in Helsinki. Article on food safety and plastic packaging in Europe. Interviews with experts in Austria, The Netherlands and Germany, and major German supermarket chains REWE, KAUFLAND and NETTO.

December 2018:

Commissioned research into the potential German dimensions of a news item on the tragic death of a British national in Tenerife.

November 2018:

Article on Nord Lock Group and its involvement in the construction of the Kienlesberg bridge in the southern German city of Ulm. 

October 2018:

Research, setting up & conducting face-to-face and telephone interviews, and doing German / English interpretation during interviews taking place at the Bavarian Parliament (Bayerische Landtag). Interviews organised with a range of small, Munich-based companies,  and politicians from the Christian Social Union (CSU), the Free Voters of Bavaria (FWB) and the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD). Working alongside British journalist Robert Hardman. 

September 2018:

Research work into the financial history, corporate structure and press coverage relating to selected food-related companies based in Germany. 

May-September 2018:

Range of writing, researching editing consumer and scientific articles to be published in the company newsletter, in trade magazines and for think-pieces on LinkedIn. 

April 2018.

Lead feature piece featuring a truck specialist from a leading Austrian transport company, whilst accompanying him en route from through Germany & across to Sweden.

January, 2018:

A centre-spread article on the small team at Renault Trucks, who won the pretigous RTEC competition. 

December 2017 - March 2018.

Range of Linked In articles for Evonik specialist chemicals company, alongside articles for their in-house publication, AminoNews. Further articles for various agriculture-related publications such as Poultry International. 

2nd-18th November, 2017: 

Interviews, research & writing of articles about the German team of students which won the global Hyperloop competition for BOLTED.

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October, 2017: 

Writing & editing articles for the speciality chemicals company, Evonik Industries AG. This includes writing pieces for their in-house magazine, AMINONews, and editing of posts for LinkedIn and articles for specialist magazines such as Poultry International. 

September 19-21st:

Work as a stringer for this British daily newspaper. Monitoring German press relating to Angela Merkel's speech in Hamburg, attending the speech, organising face-to-face and telephone interviews for staff journalist Robert Hardman, with German political parties including FDP and AfD, alongside BILD Zeitung & east German political professors and German / English interpretation during vox-pops in Billstedt, Hamburg.

August 2017:

Feature articles on poultry-related developments published in Poultry International and on LinkedIn.

August, 2017: Feature article on raw feed for dogs for this canine magazine for canine community in north-east Ohio, United States.

July, 2017:

Various news articles on poultry feed issues on behalf of Evonik pharmaceutical company.

26.06.2017:

Quirky news story from northern Germany on an unsual summer snack created specially for the canine community.

25-27th May, 2017:

Commissioned background research for The Daily Mirror newspaper into the Düsselfdorf airport link to the perpetrator of the Manchester terror attacks.

March-April 2017:

Commissioned research for BOLTED magazine on behalf of the Swedish communications agency, Spoon.

26.03.2017:

Ghostwriting of social media blog posts for Dubai-based content marketing group, Silxdigital.

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02.03.2017:

Freelance writing and editing work for corporate publications of the global specialist chemicals company, Evonik.

21.12.2016:

Reporting from Emmerich, Kleve and Dortmund in western Germany for The Times newspaper, following German police raids conducted in connection with the Berlin Christmas market terror attack. Published co-authored article, "Police raid homes across Germany in hunt for Berlin suspect."

15.12.2016:

Centre-spread feature article publihed in the Volvo Group magazine. Article is a profile interview of a transport company based in southern Germany. Conducted in arrangedment with Spoon communications agency in Gothenburg, Sweden.

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03.12.2016:

Two-page Feature Article published in the World Report section of The Lancet medical journal. "Mixed diagnosis for Serbian health system".

13.08.2016:

Feature article published in the World Report section of UK medical journal, The Lancet.

The 2,300 word feature article is entitled: "Refugees need health cards, say German doctors".