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A small-town girl found Hollywood glamour as a nanny, as she tells Helen Kewley From an agency owner's perspective, I admire any nanny who never looks for problems but grabs her opportunities. When things take an unexpected turn or come to a halt, as they will in any job, Debbie Pope has always put it down to experience and never let anything put her off taking the next nanny vacancy.

From an agency owner's perspective, I admire any nanny who never looks for problems but grabs her opportunities. When things take an unexpected turn or come to a halt, as they will in any job, Debbie Pope has always put it down to experience and never let anything put her off taking the next nanny vacancy.

Debbie grew up in Gorefield, a village near Wisbech in Cambridgeshire, and completed her nannying course at the Isle College when she was 17.

Straightaway she was offered a temporary job caring for two children in the village.

She says, 'That job showed me that I really wanted to be a nanny, but I also realised that I would probably have to move away from home and I urgently needed to pass a driving test. An agency found me a four-month post in Huntingdon. That job paid for my driving lessons and test.

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