She added: "Top of Labour's newyearresolution list is to establish an Alcohol Commission to start working on finding robust proposals to deal with those who are hazardous and harmful drinkers".
That led to four years with the station in question before making a new year's resolution for the new millennium to try out everything she had learned on a bigger scale - and she moved to the UK in 2000 armed with two suitcases and a demo tape.
