Tricia Ingrams

Tricia Ingrams (28 March1946 - 26 October 1996) was a journalist and interviewer best known as a reporter and presenter of Thames Television's regional news programme Thames News.

She was born Barbara Long Patricia Gearney in Edgeware, Middlesex and was the eldest of four children to two Irish parents. When Tricia was 18, her mother died suddenly and the children were orphaned.

Career

She started her career in journalism as a writer for a local magazine produced by the grocery chain SPAR and went on to write for IPC magazines and appear in the national tabloid newspaper The Sun as an Action Girl..

Ingrams switched to broadcasting and became a presenter for the United Biscuits Network, an industrial radio station which broadcast to United Biscuits factories across the UK..Then in 1974, she joined Capital Radio in 1974 as a reporter and newsreader. A year later, Capital's in-house newsroom was closed down and she moved to LBC Radio where she presented pioneering phone-in programmes and The Sunday Interview.

After helping to set up the now-defunct commercial radio station for Portsmouth, Radio Victory, Ingrams returned to London and became a long serving presenter of Thames News, often found presenting alongside former ITN anchorman Andrew Gardner..

Ingrams left Thames when the station lost its franchise in December 1992 and worked at Anglia Television and British Sky Broadcasting for short periods before joining London News Radio (a short-lived replacement for LBC) as a presenter in 1994.

Personal life

She was married in 1972 to Paul Ingrams, who met Tricia whilst they were both working at United Biscuits. The marriage was dissolved thirteen years later.

On 26 October 1996, Tricia Ingrams died at the age of 50 from cancer.