He has been working at the newspaper for the past 14 years and for the last decade has been a feature writer. He is the author of Ashley Jackson’s biography An Artist’s Life published in 2010. Over the years he has interviewed the likes of Alan Bennett, Sean Bean and John Hurt, and in 2004 he spent a week with the Green Howards in Afghanistan sending back dispatches on the work being carried out by the British troops. He is co-ordinating The Yorkshire Post & Yorkshire Evening Post’s Legacies of War coverage – to mark the centenary of the First World War.