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Melanie Wright is the money editor at Rest Less. An award-winning financial journalist, he has written about personal finance for the past 25 years, and specializes in mortgages, savings and retirement. He is a former Deputy Editor of Your Money section at The Daily Telegraph, wrote the Money section of the Sunday Mirror for over a decade, and has been interviewed on BBC Breakfast, Good Morning Britain, ITN News and Channel Five News. Melanie lives in Kent with her husband, two sons and their dog. He spends most of his free time driving his kids to social events or watching them play sports in the rain.