Celia Barlow
| Celia Barlow | |
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Member of Parliament for Hove |
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In office 6 May 2005 – 12 April 2010 |
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| Preceded by | Ivor Caplin |
| Succeeded by | Mike Weatherley |
| Majority | 420 (0.9%) |
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| Born |
28 September 1955 Cardiff, Wales, UK |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Labour |
| Spouse(s) | Sam Jaffa |
| Children | two sons, one daughter |
| Residence | Hove and London |
| Alma mater | Cambridge University, Cardiff University |
| Profession | journalist |
Celia Anne Barlow (born 28 September 1955) is a British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Hove from 2005 to 2010. She also worked as home news editor at the BBC.
Barlow was born in Cardiff, Wales, and attended King Edward High School for Girls in Birmingham. She completed an MA in Archaeology and Anthropology at Cambridge then studying for a postgraduate diploma in journalism at Cardiff University. She began her career as a reporter on the Bradford Telegraph and Argus in 1979. She was appointed assistant editor at Asia Television in Hong Kong in 1982. She returned to Britain in 1983 to become home news editor at the BBC. She left the BBC in 1995. She became a freelance video producer in 1998 before lecturing in video production at the Chichester College of Art and Design from 2000.
She was elected secretary of the Chelsea Constituency Labour Party in 1993, and became the chair of the Chichester Constituency Labour Party in 1998. In 2000, she was selected to contest the safe Conservative seat of Chichester at the 2001 General Election and finished third, behind the winner Andrew Tyrie.
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