Chris Foote Wood

Chris Foote Wood is an English politician and author. Foote Wood went to Bury Grammar School, winning the Senior Mathematics prize. He completed a four-year honours degree course in Civil Engineering at Kings College, Newcastle (then part of the University of Durham) but was not awarded a degree. He worked as a civil engineer for several years before starting Durham Free Press in 1968, pioneering commercial free press newspapers in the North East, but gave it up after three years to work as a freelance journalist and broadcaster. He later set up his own press agency, North Press News & Sport, and ran it for 30 years up to 2004. He has contested a large number of public elections at all levels. His first nationally-published book, Nellie's Book, about the early life of his mother, Helen Wood, was published by Sutton in 2006. He has gone on to write several more books, including When I'm Sixty-Four (1,001 things to do at 60+), and a comprehensive guide to the 56 remaining seaside pleas