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Bec Oakes

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Liverpool
As seen in: The Telegraph, Metro (UK), Substack, Flipboard, Refinery29, Refinery29 UK, LADbible, Her Campus, Byrdie, UNILAD and
Covers:  Fashion, lifestyle, culture, women's and social issues
Liverpool based freelance journalist / MECFS becoakesfreelancer@gmail.com 💌

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A dedicated and passionate freelance journalist with over five years of experience writing and editing for both print and digital publications

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Universities are still turning a blind eye to sexual assault on campus

Universities are still turning a blind eye to sexual assault on campus

Students are almost three times more likely to experience sexual assault than the national average. Why are u…

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How Western society has commercialised yoga

How Western society has commercialised yoga

Western societies have turned this 5,000-year-old spiritual practice into a product-what can we do about it?

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25 Years Later, "Clueless" Fashion Is Still, Like, Totally Important

25 Years Later, "Clueless" Fashion Is Still, Like, Totally Important

"Okay, so you're probably going, 'Is this like a Noxzema commercial or what?'" starts Amy Heckerling's . The …

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Realistic steps you can take to make more sustainable fashion choices

Realistic steps you can take to make more sustainable fashion choices

As a country, the UK is addicted to shopping. According to The Guardian, we buy more clothes per person than …

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Armie Hammer Quits 'Shotgun Wedding' After Cannibal Scandal

Armie Hammer Quits 'Shotgun Wedding' After Cannibal Scandal

The 34-year-old has dropped out of the upcoming movie Shotgun Wedding after screenshots of disturbing sexts d…

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Banning maskless shoppers couldn't come soon enough for supermarket workers

Banning maskless shoppers couldn't come soon enough for supermarket workers

I'd just returned to the checkouts after my lunch break when a group of customers came to my counter. Eight a…

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Articles

People shocked after finding out real age of Kevin’s mum in Home Alone

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Home> Entertainment> Film Catherine O'Hara stars as Kate McCallister in the festive flick With the festive season comes an annual debate - what's the best Christmas film? Elf and How the Grinch Stole Christmas are modern classics. And 1946's A Wonderful Life will have you reaching for the tissue box. You might even have some mates who think they're edgy and cool and consider Die Hard a perfectly acceptable festive offering. They're wrong.
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Daughter of YouTube mum Machelle Hobson 'locked in empty room for days' and treated like 'puppet'

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By Bec Oakes 
| LADbible
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Doctor warns people against going to toilet before they go out 'just in case'

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Awards

SPA National Award

2020 - Best News Story

I won a national Student Publication Association Award for 'Best News Story' for the article, "SKUM: Manchester's Bullingdon Club" which was published by The Mancunion. Following a four-month investigation, the article exposed the misogynistic, racist and antisocial behaviour of my university's largest sports society.

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