Laura Purkess is The Sun's Consumer Features Editor and Consumer Champion. She manages personal finance features, investigations and exclusive stories online and in the paper and wins back money for readers through her weekly column. Laura is a multi-award-winning financial journalist known for her investigations and financial policy scoops. She previously wrote about money for The Daily Mail, and before that she was News Editor at financial publication Citywire where she developed in-depth knowledge of pensions, investments, insurance, mortgages and tax, including completing Chartered Insurance Institute qualifications. Laura recently won Headline Money's prestigious Pensions Journalist of the Year award 2024, was highly commended for Headline Money’s Rising Star (Consumer) award in 2023, and won Headline Money's Rising Star (B2B) award in 2021 and NextGen's Financial Journalist of the Year award in 2020. She has been a regular guest on Times Radio for three years and has been interviewed on BBC Radio 2, BBC Radio 4 and numerous podcasts. Laura holds a degree in Linguistics from Queen Mary, University of London.