Ros began her journalistic career as a trainee reporter with the Express & Star regional daily newspaper group, based in Wolverhampton, covering all types of news story, from inquests and murder trials to council meetings and ‘human interest’ stories.
In 1988 she was offered – and accepted – a ‘once in a lifetime’ opportunity to work in Cyprus, as News Editor of the English-language weekly newspaper Cyprus Times, based on the Turkish side of the island.
After a three-year idyll, she returned to the cut-and-thrust of British journalism, landing the post of Feature Writer with The Birmingham Post and later being promoted to Chief Feature Writer. During her seven years at the paper, she wrote about every imaginable subject, from the pros and cons of joining the euro to fathers’ rights, and interviewed a wide range of people, including ‘famous names’ such as the Duchess of York, Michael Portillo, Paddy Ashdown, Beirut hostages Terry Waite, John McCarthy and Brian Keenan, Britt Ekland and Antonio Carluccio.
In 2001, she went freelance and has written regular articles for the Home (property) section of the Sunday Times and Birmingham University’s in-house magazine, BUZZ. She has also worked, in a journalistic capacity, for Birmingham Law Society.