Helen is Newbury Sound's News Editor.

I'm a Kingsclere girl who moved down south from Manchester aged 9. I grew up here - going to Park House School and then St Barts for sixth form.

I went to Cardiff University and studied English and then moved to London for four years and worked in public relations, most recently working for Which? magazine. But I always wanted to be a journalist and so dropped everything to head back to Cardiff and complete their postgraduate diploma in broadcast journalism and I haven't looked back since.

I worked in a few local radio stations in South Wales as well as at ITV Wales before my home-coming to Newbury Sound!

More about me:

Name:  Helen Ainsworth

Age: 29 (definitely not 30!)

Starsign: Leo and proud

1st job: A Saturday job at WHSmith on Northbrook Street on their book counter

Which three words best describe you? Curious, Easy-Going and Hardy!

When you aren't on the radio, what do you like to do? Eat, sleep and drink

Whom do you admire? Kate Adie, she's an inspiration

Most famous person you have ever met? I saw Keith Chegwin once in Newbury!

What really winds you up? If you don't have a good news story for me!

Which celeb did you first have a crush on? Mark from Take That when he did 'Babe'

Best thing about West Berkshire: Its beautiful villages and the lovely people that live in them

Worst thing about West Berkshire: The M4!

Film? My mum and I have a Dirty Dancing obsession

TV Show as a kid? Willow the Whisp

TV Show now? The ITV Meridian news of course!