Tricia Ingrams (28 March 1946 – 26 October 1996) was a journalist and interviewer best known as a reporter and presenter of

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's regional news programme ''

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''. She was born Patricia Ann Geaney in

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and was the eldest of four children to two Irish parents. When Ingrams 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

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magazines and appear in the national tabloid newspaper ''

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'' as an ''Action Girl''.Obituary: Tricia Ingrams
The Independent (London), 14 November 1996 Ingrams switched to broadcasting and became a presenter for the

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, an industrial radio station which broadcast to

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factories across the UK. Then in 1973, she joined

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as a reporter and newsreader. A year later, Capital's in-house newsroom was closed down and she moved to

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where she presented phone-in programmes and ''The Sunday Interview''. After helping to set up the now-defunct commercial radio station for

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, Ingrams returned to London and became a long-serving presenter of ''

'', often found presenting alongside former

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anchorman Andrew Gardner.Thames TV presenters' profiles – The TV Room Plus
/ref> Ingrams left Thames when the station lost its franchise in December 1992 and worked at

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and

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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 the

. The marriage was dissolved thirteen years later. On 26 October 1996, Tricia Ingrams died in London at the age of 50 from cancer.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Ingrams, Tricia 1946 births 1996 deaths British reporters and correspondents English television presenters People from Edgware English people of Irish descent 20th-century British journalists