In the early May 1997 issue of The Warminster Digest, his free news sheet for the town, Paul Macdonald wrote:
Anne-Marie Berridge has come back to Warminster a grown up woman and is now teaching at St. John’s School.
Known to many for her community work as a teenager for organisations like the Red Cross she is the daughter of Tony and Sue Berridge of local coach and taxi fame. Anne-Marie left school aiming to be a teacher.
Her training took place in the neighbouring county of Hampshire. Anne-Marie is, the Warminster Digest believes, one of the last teachers to qualify with a Batchelor of Education degree following the changes that have been implemented in recent years.
Anne-Marie filled the gap left when Miss Payne put on her walking shoes and back pack to take a year’s sabbatical by touring foreign parts.