About Fiona Fiona Hall was born on 15th July 1955, in Swinton, Manchester. She has lived in Whittingham, Northumberland since 1981 and has two grown up daughters. In the early 1990s Fiona chaired the Druridge Bay campaign to stop nuclear power and sand extraction on the Northumberland coast. Fiona then moved to work for the Liberal Democrats, firstly as a press/political officer to Lembit Opik MP and Richard Livsey MP from 1997-1999 and then until 2004 as a parliamentary researcher and press officer to Rt Hon Alan Beith MP