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(From The Northern Echo)
Byline: SARAH FOSTER
It was value for money that first attracted DJ Lisa Shaw to her home in Consett. Women's Editor SARAH FOSTER has a guided tour
IT'S raining buckets when I arrive at Lisa Shaw's home, on a new estate in Consett's Templetown. I'm greeted by Lisa, who immediately asks me in, but seeing the cream carpet in the living room, I'm not so sure. I offer to take off my shoes, but she won't hear of it, so I step inside, making sure I wipe my feet.
Every weekday you can hear Lisa, who's 29, on Century FM's Breakfast with Scott and Lisa. In 2004, the blonde, blue-eyed presenter married Ian Burdett, a health and fitness manager at David Lloyd Leisure in Gosforth and it was later that year that the couple moved into their current home. Lisa says that following the wedding, she began to get itchy feet.
"We used to live in Hamsterley, about three miles away from here, and we had a lovely house where we'd lived for two years, but I got a bit bored after I'd planned the wedding, " she says. "I suggested looking at houses and it all happened really quickly. I went to sixth form college in Consett and I've lived in County Durham for most of my life, so I knew the area."
When Lisa and Ian first saw the house, the whole area was still a building site, yet they fell in love with it straight away.