Steve Doran is an English community organiser, activist and former radio DJ from

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, Kent. She fronted a campaign against payday lenders in the UK in conjunction with Movement For Change. She discussed the issues surrounding payday lending on

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news,

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news, Channel 5 News and on

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. She met with

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to discuss proposed policy on payday lending. At the 2006

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held on 9 November, Doran was announced as the Gold Award winner for Best Female Presenter. On Friday 13 April 2007, Doran presented the Early Breakfast Show on

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, in a slot designed to showcase new talent, and as direct result of her win the previous year of the Student Radio Award. Steve became well-known on her university campus after doing 40 hours solidly on URN to raise money for

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2005. She presented the Evening Show on Tuesdays as well as The Graveyard Shift on Sundays for

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, the university student radio station. Steve has also served as Mayoress of

2006-7, acting as consort to the Mayor, her uncle Councillor David Hammock at the age of 19. Doran was also President of the Nottingham University Debating Union (2006-2007). For her contribution to student life at Nottingham she was made an Honorary Life Member of the

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in 2007.

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