Kenilworth Probus has announced the speakers for its next two group meetings.

Probus Kenilworth No.2 Club is a group of retired and semi-retired gentlemen who have a background in business, the professions or industry.

It is based in and around Kenilworth and in normal times meets regularly with the sole purpose of providing members with the opportunity to enjoy themselves!

However, during lockdown their monthly meeting are being held virtually using Zoom.

Kenilworth Probus have now announced the speakers for the next two meetings, to be held on February 9 and March 9.

For the February Meeting Mark Warburton will be talking on 'The MP's expenses scandal and other skulduggery in high places.'

In March the editor of the Probus magazine, Alison Harris will be discussing her long career in journalism under the title 'From Typewriters to Computers'.

The MP's expenses scandal and other skulduggery in high places

Speaker: Mike Warburton

Date: February 9

Time: 10.30am

For many years Mike was a tax partner with Grant Thornton, a large national firm of accountants, and was based in Cheltenham for 20 of those years.

He was the firm's spokesman on tax matters and had extensive dealings with the national media. That included the BBC, where for about 25 years he was a member of the Radio 4 Money Box panel and had a weekly business slot on BBC Radio Gloucestershire.

During that period he helped the national press with investigative reporting into tax issues and various other political shenanigans. In particular he worked closely with the Daily Telegraph team in their exposure of the MP's expenses scandal in 2009 which forms the basis of his talk.

From Typewriters to Computers

Speaker: Alison Harris

Date: 9th March

Time: 10.30am

Alison's talk is based on her long career in local journalism before becoming the editor and proprietor of the Probus Magazine.

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