[The Guardian] Lynn Faulds Wood obituary

Lynn Faulds Wood obituary

Presenter of BBC TV’s consumer rights show Watchdog who went on to become a campaigner for bowel cancer patients

Lynn Faulds Wood, who has died of a stroke aged 72, was a journalist whose warm personality and relentless campaigning made her popular on screen as a consumer champion over three decades in breakfast television and as a presenter of Watchdog.

By the time she appeared on TV in the 1980s, she was a seasoned campaigner in battling to right public grievances through her work in newspapers and magazines. While writing her Lynn’s Action Line column for the Sun, she drummed up support from 100,000 readers for the closure of Club Row, a live animal market in the East End of London that faced increasing opposition from the RSPCA and animal rights protesters. She showed her “pen and sword” commitment by leading thousands of readers on a march to Margaret Thatcher in Downing Street. The passing of a private member’s bill closing the market in 1983 was a direct result of Faulds Wood’s commitment to a cause.

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