Went to the ‘Headline Money’ awards last night, an internal media awards do. Sat on an interesting table expecting fireworks. It was power-packed with personal finance editors from the Financial Mail on Sunday, The Times, Sunday Times, Sunday Indie, The Mirror, Thisismoney as well as me. Yet everyone was remarkably well behaved. Shame. I did win £1...

So there I am, checking e-mails and getting ready for bed at 1.30 am this morning when I get a call from a producer on GM-TV. Can you come on tomorrow morning and talk about the report that’s just come out (it was embargo’d which means we journalists get it but don’t write or talk about it...

Watched ‘Skint’ on BBC1 for the first time last night. Sadly didn’t manage to catch all of this fly on the wall documentary series about people with serious money problems. The focus was on ‘cash converters’ – a modern version of a pawn shop. It was eye opening. I freely admit that my MoneySaving focus is saving...

So it’s a days filming today for a Tonight with Trev Mac programme about Rosie Millard, the former BBC Arts Correspondent and now presenter/Sunday Times Buy-to-let columnist. She’s been slammed recently for being £40,000 in debt while having a huge amount of property. My job was to go in and see her and find the real story...

Went in to do Jeremy Vine’s Radio 2 show as normal. The big difference, Tony Blair was doing the hour before me. Sadly, they ran long with the PM and he took 30 minutes of my MoneySaving time (anyone’d think there was an election on or something!). So I crossed Mr. Blair in the corridor and nodded...