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English journalist and broadcaster (born 1946)

Beryl Ann "Bel" Mooney (born 8 October 1946) 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 (2005–07), The Sunday Times (1982–83) 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.

She passed her 11-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