Roger Hutchinson (writer)
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Roger Hutchinson (born 1949)[1] is a British author and journalist. Hutchinson was born in Farnworth, near Bolton, in Lancashire,[citation needed] but lives on Raasay, off the east coast of Skye.
Hutchinson attended Bretton Hall College in Leeds to study English.[2]
Career
In the late 1960s, around the time he studied English at Bretton Hall College, he founded and edited 'Sad Traffic', published from a small office in Barnsley, which ran for five issues before morphing into Yorkshire's alternative newspaper, Styng (Sad Traffic Yorkshire News & Gossip).[2][3]
He then moved to London and edited OZ, International Times and the magazine Time Out.[2][3][4]
In the late 1970s Hutchinson moved to Skye to become a journalist on the West Highland Free Press.[2] Since 1999 he has lived on Raasay.[2]
He has also served as editor of the Stornoway Gazette.[citation needed]
