Eleanor Noyce
Eleanor Noyce is a lifestyle reporter at Metro whose work sits at the intersection of health, housing, sex and identity. Her coverage combines service-led explainers with lived-experience reporting, with a particular focus on property, LGBTQ+ culture, disability and neurodiversity. Alongside Metro, her bylines span outlets including the Independent, Glamour, Stylist, Women’s Health, PinkNews, Healthline and Bustle, carrying the same emphasis on clear, accessible journalism about bodies, relationships and everyday life.
Health and strength explainers
Within Metro’s lifestyle pages, Noyce’s health coverage takes a practical, benchmark-driven approach that frames fitness as part of day-to-day wellbeing. In her guide on how many push-ups different age groups should be able to do, she breaks strength training down into clear targets by age, tying an everyday exercise to broader questions of capability and self-care. The piece reflects a wider pattern in her work: using straightforward formats and simple language to give readers concrete reference points on what “normal” looks like in terms of physical performance and health expectations.
What I Rent and What I Own
Noyce runs Metro’s hero property columns, What I Rent and What I Own, which give a glimpse into the reality of UK housing. These recurring features focus on how people actually live, treating rent, mortgages and home ownership as part of the texture of ordinary life rather than an abstract market. Through these columns she foregrounds individual stories and real numbers to show what different kinds of housing cost and feel like, making structural issues in housing policy legible through personal experience. That property focus sits alongside her health and lifestyle work, positioning housing as a determinant of wellbeing rather than a purely financial beat.
LGBTQ+ culture and language
Across Metro and specialist outlets, Noyce regularly covers LGBTQ+ culture, with a particular interest in how queer communities use language. At Metro she has written about contemporary gay slang, including a piece unpacking the expression “Turning 19 in Poland” as part of a guide to current gay phrases, treating slang as a way into wider conversations about identity and community. Her ongoing work for PinkNews, a leading LGBTQ+ digital publisher, extends that cultural lens, contributing news and features that foreground queer perspectives and experiences rather than treating them as an add-on to mainstream coverage. Healthline describes her remit as spanning LGBTQIA culture, sex and disability, underscoring how she connects cultural reporting with questions of embodiment and access.
Sex, relationships and disability
Noyce’s broader portfolio is anchored in sex, relationships and disability, themes she threads through lifestyle and health assignments alike. Profiles for Healthline and Bustle highlight her focus on LGBTQI issues, sex and relationships and disability, positioning her as a reporter who treats intimacy and access as intertwined subjects. Her social and professional bios emphasise the same mix, describing her work as centred on property, sex and disability within a lifestyle frame. She also writes about neurodiversity and ADHD, using her reporting to dismantle misconceptions and advocate for more accurate, ethical coverage of neurodivergent people. That experience informs how she approaches health and mental health stories, prioritising stigma reduction and clarity when explaining diagnostic labels, support options and everyday realities for disabled and neurodivergent audiences.
Across these strands, Noyce’s reporting is defined less by a single topic than by a consistent angle: she treats health, housing, sex, disability and queer culture as parts of the same lived picture. Whether she is quantifying how many push-ups different age groups can aim for, profiling how people rent and own their homes, or decoding the latest queer slang, her work stays close to readers’ bodies, budgets and identities, translating complex social dynamics into straightforward, lived detail.
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Alex Storey
Alex Storey is a journalist at LBC whose work is driven by specific cases that test professional conduct and accountability in health and the public sector. He covers health as his main beat, focusing on the point where individual decisions by clinicians or officials meet public trust in institutions. His reporting is incident-first and case-led, using concrete episodes to show how rules, ethics and policy work in real life. Recent pieces include a disciplinary case where a nurse was struck off after linking a patient’s cancer to Covid jabs, and coverage of civil servants being “paid to play Grand Theft Auto” as “lived experience” training. Across these stories, he examines how professionals, regulators and officials explain their decisions, and what that reveals about trust, responsibility and the standards expected of people in positions of authority.
Alexandra Thompson
Alexandra Thompson is an assistant news editor focused on health who treats health claims as hypotheses to be tested rather than messages to be repeated. She works at New Scientist, combining editing with frontline reporting on ageing brains, cognitive health, chronic illness, contested treatments and infectious disease. Her beat centres on how neuroscience and psychology intersect with everyday health choices and on how scientific findings translate into real-world outcomes for people living with illness. She examines lifestyle advice, rehabilitation programmes and outbreak guidance against current evidence, clarifying risk without overstating it and giving space to controversy without sensationalising it. Alongside written news she appears in audio and video formats, bringing the same clear, news-driven approach to live discussions and helping shape the daily health agenda while keeping a tight focus on evidence and impact.
Alice Wilkinson
Alice Wilkinson investigates how everyday habits, products and routines shape sleep and long-term wellbeing, using test-driven health features to separate hype from real benefit. She holds a senior role on The Telegraph’s health features team, writing and shaping consumer-focused coverage that blends personal trial with clear expert evidence. Her core beat is sleep as a practical, solvable part of daily life, from detailed comparisons of magnesium supplements to service pieces on how sleeping position affects health over time. She treats supplements as a crowded, over-claimed market that demands careful testing and clear-eyed reporting. Alongside long-form features she writes weekly health desk dispatches on sleep, stress and concentration. Across her work she combines substantial self-testing, specialist insight and plain, unfussy prose to give readers measurable, realistic changes they can make.
Ally Head
Ally Head connects performance-focused fitness reporting with women’s health, sustainability and relationships, using her own endurance training and health history to stress-test trends against expert guidance. She is Senior Health, Sustainability and Relationships Editor at Marie Claire UK, where she shapes the health agenda across training, wellbeing and conscious living and writes and commissions news, topical features and SEO-led long-form pieces. A ten-time marathoner and Boston-qualifying runner, she focuses on structured, realistic training plans, strength and conditioning for women who run, and performance longevity. Her women’s health work centres on hormones, chronic conditions and fact versus fiction wellness claims. She also covers sustainability as conscious living and relationships, mental resilience and lifestyle features, favouring plain language, lived experience, specialist commentary and clear, repeatable routines. She has previously produced similar content for Women’s Health, Stylist, Glamour and Grazia.