House & Garden's editor-at-large has had a varied career. As an 'antidote to 15 years in fashion', she took a job running day centres for Age Concern. This was followed by a period selling embroideries, which she sourced in India. On the plane returning from one of her buying trips Liz picked up a copy of Private Eye, which was advertising for a girl Friday. After a successful application, she spent 10 years at the magazine, where she ended up writing the Sally Deedes column (which exposed and campaigned against professional malpractice) - before coming to 'the smooth waters of House & Garden'. Liz loves her job because she 'genuinely believes that Britain leads in design - mainly because we dare to take risks.'
They are stepping up calls for the council to act after the Harborough Mail revealed last April the authority spent £920,000 of taxpayers’ cash on a bungalow valued at £303,000 to help drive through the initiative