Bridget Rowe is a former newspaper editor in the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

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Rowe worked for a succession of magazines: 19, Petticoat, Club, Look Now and Woman's World, before becoming Assistant Editor of The Sun

The Sun (newspaper)

The Sun is a daily national tabloid newspaper published in the United Kingdom and owned by News Corporation. Sister editions are published in Glasgow and Dublin...

, then editor of "Sunday", the News of the World

News of the World

The News of the World was a national red top newspaper published in the United Kingdom from 1843 to 2011. It was at one time the biggest selling English language newspaper in the world, and at closure still had one of the highest English language circulations...

s magazine. In 1986, Rowe became editor of Woman's Own

Woman's Own

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, then edited TV Times

TV Times

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Rowe edited the Sunday Mirror

Sunday Mirror

The Sunday Mirror is the Sunday sister paper of the Daily Mirror. It began life in 1915 as the Sunday Pictorial and was renamed the Sunday Mirror in 1963. Trinity Mirror also owns The People...

 from 1991 to 1992, then moved to edit The People

The People

The People, previously known as the Sunday People, is a British tabloid Sunday-only newspaper. The paper was founded on 16 October 1881.It is published by the Trinity Mirror Group.In July 2011 it had an average daily circulation of 806,544....

. In 1995, she became managing director of both newspapers, and in 1997 she returned to editing the Sunday Mirror for a year. After this, she served as the Director of Communications for the National Magazine Company, and later was the content director of Yava, until 2001.
She was a panelist on the first series of Loose Women

Loose Women

Loose Women is a British lunchtime television programme, first broadcast in 1999 on ITV. It consists of a panel of four women who interview celebrities and discuss topical issues, ranging from daily politics and current affairs, to celebrity gossip...

 in 1999.

A friend of United Kingdom Independence Party

United Kingdom Independence Party

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 (UKIP) leader Nigel Farage

Nigel Farage

Nigel Paul Farage MEP , a position he previously held from September 2006 to November 2009. He is a current Member of the European Parliament for South East England and co-chairs the Eurosceptic Europe of Freedom and Democracy group....

, Rowe registered as the leader of Libertas UK with the United Kingdom Electoral Commission

Electoral Commission (United Kingdom)

The Electoral Commission is an independent body set up by the UK Parliament. It regulates party and election finance and sets standards for well-run elections...

 in December 2008, in order to prevent Declan Ganley

Declan Ganley

Declan James Ganley is a British-born Irish citizen, entrepreneur, businessman and political activist. He is founder and chairman of a political party, Libertas with pan-European ambitions...

's political party Libertas from fielding candidates in the UK's European Parliament elections in 2009

European Parliament election, 2009 (United Kingdom)

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under that name.