The Author

Fergus Muirhead is an experienced writer and broadcaster. He has written on all aspects of money and consumer issues for a number of newspapers and magazines as diverse as Scotland on Sunday, The Herald, The Sunday Herald, the Sun, The News of the World and the Journal of the Probate Section of the Law Society. He wrote a regular column in Moneywise Magazine and for five years he was Consumer Champion at best selling magazine Women’s Own.

He is the author of three money advice booklets for One Parent Families as well as a number of Chapters in the Probate Section Journal Yearbook. He has also written on-line content for RBS ‘Money Sense’ website as well as their ‘Teacher’s Guide to Finance’ Booklets.

As well as his writing credits Fergus has appeared regularly on a number of radio and TV programmes. These include GMTV, BBC Breakfast, Homes Live and Location, Location, Location for TV and Macaulay & Co, The Phil Williams Show and many BBC News programmes on radio.

He can be seen and heard on his regular money and consumer slot on BBC Scotland’s flagship TV news programme Reporting Scotland and on the lunchtime radio show John Beattie.

Fergus has travelled the world playing the bagpipes, initially with Molendinar in the late seventies and more recently with The Caulbums Ceilidh Band. He teaches The City of Barcelona Pipe Band and is a regular at concerts, Burns Suppers and weddings in Catalunya. In the picture below he is playing for the Japanese Consul at a St Patrick’s Day concert in the centre of Barcelona.

He has acted as MC at concerts in every Piping Live! Festival over the last 10 years and is in demand as a speaker at Burns Nights all over the world.

Find out more about Fergus on his own website at www.fergusmuirhead.com.