[4] Wheatcroft was educated at Wolverhampton Girls' High School and Birmingham University (LLB, Law, 1972).

[5] She and her husband, Tony Salter, launched the specialist trade magazine Retail Week in 1988 and Wheatcroft served as its consultant editor until 1992.

[8] From 27 February 2008 until 2009, she served as a non-executive director of Shaftesbury plc,[9] a British property investment company with assets in central London.

On 8 May 2008, she was appointed head of the newly created Forensic Audit Panel by the incoming Mayor of London, Boris Johnson.

Her publisher husband Tony was a Conservative Party campaigner working in the London boroughs of Greenwich and Lewisham.