MEET RICHARD HARRIS
Richard Harris is a retired freelance journalist living on the northern fringes of the Lake District in Cumbria.
After many years working happily on provincial newspapers (the Weston-super-Mare Mercury, the Western Daily Press and the Nottingham Evening Post) his career took an unexpected turn when he was sacked after three years as editor of the Evening News & Star and weekly Cumberland News in Carlisle.
In a desperate attempt to make a living without giving up either the career he loved or the place he loved living in, he became a freelance reporter and writer, mainly covering activities at Carlisle Crown Court.
Richard has been married to Tricia, whom he met while working in Somerset, for more than 40 years and they live in a small rural village a few miles from Carlisle. They have two grown-up sons, a daughter and two grandchildren.
He enjoys a typical Cumbrian rustic lifestyle, with ducks and hens in the garden and buzzards, woodcock and pheasants in the woodland which surrounds his house.
He has supported Bristol City for more than half a century and in 2008, after five years’ trying, qualified as a solo glider pilot.
After many years working happily on provincial newspapers (the Weston-super-Mare Mercury, the Western Daily Press and the Nottingham Evening Post) his career took an unexpected turn when he was sacked after three years as editor of the Evening News & Star and weekly Cumberland News in Carlisle.
In a desperate attempt to make a living without giving up either the career he loved or the place he loved living in, he became a freelance reporter and writer, mainly covering activities at Carlisle Crown Court.
Richard has been married to Tricia, whom he met while working in Somerset, for more than 40 years and they live in a small rural village a few miles from Carlisle. They have two grown-up sons, a daughter and two grandchildren.
He enjoys a typical Cumbrian rustic lifestyle, with ducks and hens in the garden and buzzards, woodcock and pheasants in the woodland which surrounds his house.
He has supported Bristol City for more than half a century and in 2008, after five years’ trying, qualified as a solo glider pilot.
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