Meet the Tiffin Team

Gilly Birkin
	Gilly Birkin is the Tiffin Times arts critic. Think Nigella Lawson crossed with Victoria Coren and when you’ve stopped thinking about that, have a cold shower and get your mind out of the gutter. She is a serious and respected arts critic with a degree in art history from Oxford University.
Mic Lord
	Is buff, pretty and in constant possession of the muse poetic. He is a media studies graduate and would like to make it absolutely clear that he is a poet and doctor as well as a journalist. This is just a temporary gig for him.
Rumble Davies
	Is a bass guitar enthusiast and is devoted to Patti, The Wildhearts, beer and Everton F.C. He is working on a thesis: Bass Vibrations and Positronic Metallurgy.
Patti Love
	Loves her bugs, her wamagadoon, and Davies. She is a Geek Goddess and would love to share a bottle of Becks and some quality entomology time with Gil Grissom.
Ramona Harlow
	Is a drama school dropout and aspirant poetess. She has large appetites and if you say anything bad about Jean Harlow, Joey Ramone or the Moomins, she'll break your legs.
Deborah McWhirter
	The Tiffin Times resident ‘celebspert’, what Deborah McWhirter doesn’t know about the world of celebrity isn’t worth knowing. Okay, you could argue that most of what she does know about it isn’t worth knowing either - but the point is, she’s got the knowledge.
Rick Pudenda
	Internationally respected wine reviewer (except by those fucking Morlocks in Sidcup). He likes to spend his spare time enthusing over his priceless collection of mid-twentieth century saucy postcards.
Raymond Breamwater
	Accused by some of fanaticism, Breamwater is the controversial owner of local veggie food emporium Mung The Merciless and writer of the column Turning Green. He is a committed environmentalist and vegetarian who can often be seen cycling to work, but rarely be seen licking a pig.
Leslie Dunlop
	Project Leader of the local community centre, Lesley Dunlop has been responsible for such initiatives as Dynamic Defecation, Ladder Safety and Over-30’s Women’s t’ai chi for the Recently Divorced. She tells us that - despite rumours to the contrary - no-one in the local council is on the take and everyone is doing great work on our collective behalf.
Julie Noted
	Our newest columnist has one of the most popular and controversial sex blogs online: Julie Noted: Sexual Pantheress which is set to be turned into an equally popular and controversial six part series on Chadwick’s new ‘adult’ channel CHADWANK 1. Technically she knows nothing about astrology, but it’s all a load of nonsense anyway.
Susie Harrington (Miss)
	Was working as a Library and Information Assistant (First Class) when she read Sir Michael's advertisement for someone to follow him and chronicle his adventures. She has strong passions beating beneath her date stamper.
Austin Tabernacle
	Known to his friends as "The Tab", he is the news editor and, unlike virtually everyone else working on this magazine, he actually has a journalism degree.
Eleanor Childress
	The Assistant News Editor, Eleanor Childress is an experienced and potent prober of the news and fact situation and suchlike etc. Before being poached for The Tiffin Times by Sir Michael, she wrote the investigative column ‘Nosing and Newsing By Eleanor Childress’ for the Chesney-Hawkes New Town Examiner.
Garth Weedon
	Garth Weedon is an experienced, capable journalist and a fine and noble colleague. However, we wouldn’t leave him alone with our wife or girlfriend (although we mean that in the nicest possible way). Oh come on - look at his picture! We suspect he’s after Austin Tabernacle’s job and Alyson Glossop’s body too, but hey -he’s damn good at his job.
Ruth Spode
	We can’t tell you much about Ruth Spode, as she is an intensely private woman who prefers to keep herself to herself - apart (allegedly) from her youth, her beauty and a small piece of her spleen, all of which she is rumoured to have given to a No Good Man in the early 1970’s. None of these were ever returned, which could account for her subsequent reserve.