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Bel Mooney

English journalist and broadcaster (born )

Beryl Ann "Bel" Mooney (born 8 October ) is an English journalist and broadcaster. She currently writes a column for the Daily Mail, having previously written – mainly as a columnist – for other publications including the Daily Mirror, The Times (–07), The Sunday Times (–83) and The Listener.

She has written a number of fiction and non-fiction books and was instrumental in the foundation of the Stillbirth Society, now known as Sands.[1]

Early life

Mooney was born in Broadgreen Hospital, Liverpool, to Gladys (née Norbury) and Edward Mooney.[2] She spent her earliest years in Liverpool on a council estate called The Green on Queens Drive.

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    • She passed her plus and went to Aigburth Vale High School for Girls.[3] At the age of fourteen Mooney moved to Wiltshire, where her parents bought their first house. She then attended school in Trowbridge, Wiltshire, at Trowbridge Girls' High School (a girls' grammar school which merged with a boys' grammar school to become the comprehensive The John of Gaunt School in ).[2] Mooney passed eight O levels and took English, Latin and Art at A level.[3] She applied unsuccessfully to the University of Oxford (at that time nobody from her school had been admitted to Oxford),[4] before going on to study English Language and Literature at University College London (UCL), where she obtained a first in [2] She was made a fellow of UCL in [2]

    Career

    Journalism

    Upon graduating from university Mooney worked as a freelance journalist.[2] From –80 she was a columnist on the Daily Mirror.[5] She has also been a regular columnist for The Times (–07), The Sunday Times (–83) and The Listener (–86).

    As an author

    Mooney is the author of the Kitty and Friends series of stories for young girls.[6] Her novel for children The Voices of Silence won a New York Public Library citation and was shortlisted for a Gold Medal in the State of California.[7]

    As well as fiction, Mooney has written many other books, including Bel Mooney's Somerset () and a memoir about love, loss, recovery – and dogs: Small Dogs Can Save Your Life ().

    Personal life

    Mooney met Jonathan Dimbleby while they were both working on the student newspaper Pi.

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    They married in February in Kensington,[8] after knowing each other for four months. Mooney was married to Dimbleby for 38 years until their divorce in [9] Mooney and Dimbleby have two adult children, Kitty (born ), a freelance journalist and charity consultant, and Daniel (born ), a television producer/director.[10] They also had a son, Tom, who was stillborn in [11] On 8 September , Mooney married Robin Allison-Smith, formerly a freelance photographer, now a businessman, with whom she lives on the outskirts of Bath, Somerset.[12][9]

    Charitable activities

    Mooney is a co-founder and patron of Sands,[13] which describes itself as "the leading stillbirth and neonatal death charity in the UK."[14] Mooney and Hazelanne Lewis both gave birth to stillborn babies in the s, and Mooney wrote an article for The Guardian, in which she described how "At that time in the UK, most parents were not allowed to see or hold their babies, no photographs were taken, parents were not told where their babies were buried, and they could not put their baby’s name on the stillbirth certificate."[15] When "Hazelanne then wrote to national newspapers asking bereaved parents to contact her and share their stories" the torrent of response led to the charity being founded, initially as the Stillbirth Association.[15]

    Bibliography

    Notes and references

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    7. ^Danziger, Danny (8 November ). 'The Worst of Times: Like King Lear, I wanted to howl: Bel Mooney talks to Danny Danziger'. The Independent.

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    8. ^Dixon, Thomas M. (). Weeping Britannia: Portrait of a Nation in Tears. Oxford University Press. pp.&#;– ISBN&#;.
    9. ^White, Hilary (). "What makes a good book for older children?". Practical Professional Child Care. 2 (6). doi/ppcc
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    11. ^Trowbridge Town Council (). Trowbridge&#;: County Town Official Guide. Local Authority Publishing Ltd.
    12. ^ abAlleyne, Richard (21 April ). "Jonathan Dimbleby on his marriage break-up".

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    13. ^"About Us – The Split Screen Ice Cream Company". Archived from the original on 8 December Retrieved 7 July
    14. ^"About". Stillbirth stories. Retrieved 29 May
    15. ^Borland, Sophie.

      " Bel Mooney to wed man 16 years her junior"The Daily Telegraph, 5 September Retrieved 31 March

    16. ^Posted 1 October (1 October ). "'Loving You From Here' book published &#; Sands - Stillbirth and neonatal death charity".

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    17. ^"About Sands &#; Sands - Stillbirth and neonatal death charity". Sands. 7 August Archived from the original on 7 January Retrieved 23 November
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