The sudden death of Harry Gration shocked Yorkshire to its core.
‘The only thing I try to do is give something back. I’m involved with a number of big charities and with whatever time I've got left I'm going to continue to do that.’
‘Yorkshire means everything to me. I spent four years working in Southampton [on BBC’s South Today in the 1990s], which was a wonderful experience because I could do my missionary work down there and tell them how wonderful Yorkshire was,’ he told us. ‘At the back end of that, I was told I was good enough to be able to apply for a full-time job,’ recalled Harry who joined the station on a permanent basis in 1978, covering news and sport, ‘the perfect job for me’.
Harry covered the county’s biggest news stories, including the miners’ strike, the Yorkshire Ripper, the murder of Batley and Spen MP Jo Cox and in 2014, he travelled to Afghanistan to report on the work being carried out by military from Strensall barracks. Christine was shocked by Harry’s death, ‘My dear friend Harry - a true Yorkshire legend We’ve had such fun together, she said on social media.
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