Richard Harris is a retired freelance journalist and one-time evening newspaper editor living on the northern fringes of the Lake District in Cumbria.
After a career working on provincial newspapers (the Weston-super-Mare Mercury, the Western Daily Press, the Nottingham Evening Post and the Carlisle News & Star/Cumberland News) he went freelance and so far has written three books - THE ACCIDENTAL EDITOR, his autobiography; GOODHART, the biography of one of the most remarkable men ever turned out by the Royal Navy; and BONGO NIGHTS, the story of his adventures in his ancient campervan.
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 supports Carlisle United – but not as much as Bristol City, whom he has followed for more than 45 years – and in 2008, after five years’ trying, qualified as a solo glider pilot.
After a career working on provincial newspapers (the Weston-super-Mare Mercury, the Western Daily Press, the Nottingham Evening Post and the Carlisle News & Star/Cumberland News) he went freelance and so far has written three books - THE ACCIDENTAL EDITOR, his autobiography; GOODHART, the biography of one of the most remarkable men ever turned out by the Royal Navy; and BONGO NIGHTS, the story of his adventures in his ancient campervan.
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 supports Carlisle United – but not as much as Bristol City, whom he has followed for more than 45 years – and in 2008, after five years’ trying, qualified as a solo glider pilot.
