One of my best friends, Barbara, is currently covering the Pope’s trip to Istanbul for Al Jazeera International (she used to be the news reader at Five news, now she’s European correspondent and weekend anchor for AJ… but anyway I digress). She tells me she was in the specially set up Vatican newsroom, which is jammed with journalists on their laptops from all over the road, and while walking through passed someone using this site. Sadly she didn’t have time to stop and see who it was…. but it’s nice to know MoneySavers are everywhere.
The Pope, Istanbul and MoneySaving…..
5 December 2006
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