 She secured her first job on the "Nottinghamshire Free Press" before gravitating to London and joining first "The Star" and later the "Daily Express".The "Express" sent her to the Soviet Union, where at age 21 she became the first female foreign correspondent in Moscow.From her years in Moscow, not only did she learn Russian, but served as interpreter for the press when the Soviet leaders Nikita Khrushchev and Nikolai Bulganin made their official visit to London in 1956.