Raymond Brown
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As seen in:
The Daily Mirror,
Yahoo News UK,
Teachers College Record,
Birmingham Mail,
Liverpool Echo,
Coventry Live,
Daily Post,
Leicester Mercury,
TeessideLive,
Cambridge News
and
Covers:
Crime, showbiz and general news
Freelance journalist, single dad, widower. Former crime reporter @Cambridge News, former showbiz news reporter @WENN
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Raymond Brown’s Biography
Read Full Bio →The dark 1950s was ending when I was born in a Glasgow still shrouded in smog - a blackened city.
My father was born and bred in India and a veteran of the Battle of El Alamein. He was sent to Scotland to train in the snow to fight the Russians. He met my mum, an Irish peasant and they wed. I was brought up in Clydebank with my five siblings.
The day I left school in 1976 I went to sign on. There was a line of men in working clothes two miles long outside the dole office. Another shipyard had j…
Raymond Brown’s Journalist Portfolio
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Interview
See all 21 answers →What was your first job as a journalist?
Edmonton Echo in 1982
Have you ever used a typewriter?
yes
How is social media changing news?
It's giving masses of info but taking away some humanity
Awards
See all 3 awards →EDF East of England Media Awards
2007 - Print Journalist of the Year (Weekly)
I was a reporter for Hertfordshire Mercury - Media awards covering East of England