About Richard Bath

Richard Bath was born and raised in the wildes of Harpenden. His early years were a constant battle against his lack of ten toes, often struggling to walk the entire way to school. This led to him having to teach himself to read from scraps of newspapers found on the dusty roads of hertfordshire. Many believe this is where his love affair with journalism started. He slowly worked his way up the ladder and eventually wangled his way into Aston University for the slow of learning. Here he found himself placed in charge of writing the university newspaper. He left a leading creator of large font newspapers.

The following years are unknown to anyone but Richard Bath himself. Investigations in the early 1990's led to suggestions that he went feral and lived amongst the wild boar of the French 'truffle-lands'. Sadly these days the only sign of these wild times in Bath's history is his love of Campbells cream of Mushroom soup.

The next recorded sighting of Bath is at BRB radio in Birmingham. He unfortuantely lost this job when Birmingham was unilaterally wiped from the map as part of the peace settlement with the Strageways rioters. Luckily for Richard solace was found in the arms of LBC in London. He arrived a wide eyed country boy but his colleagues took a shine to his childish innocence. His first attempt at a story was a piece about 4 wheeled horses pulling people, many people, around the streets. Sympathy was taken and soon he was setting alight to Bradford's Stadium and planting huge stores of Gasoline at Wimbledon's Plough Lane to get hard hitting stories, his bosses were oh-so-proud. He was soon headhunted by Newsroom south-east who thought his sparkling ability to read an auto-cue could bring a new era to local journalism.

Years at the BBC and SkyNews followed where he continued to hone his skills whilst also perfecting what would eventually become his trademark - from coast-to-coast, nation to nation, generation to generation people would talk of only one thing, the eyebrow raise. This kind of audience pull eventually caught the eye of Westcountry News. The executives thought his brand of sceptisism towards the stories and hatred of his audience could just be the missing link between their slick productions and a difficult - some would say inbred and stupid - audience.

These days not a day goes past without the Devon air being filled with chatter about Richard's latest tie/suit combination or a Cornish beach being turned blue with locals irate at the latest missive about Cornish pasties being just as bad as Devon's. The last recorded viewer in Somerset - a Boer War veteran who didn't know how to change the channel - died in 1994 after winning Tauntons annual 20 km Sprint; therefore no record of viewer opinion in that area has been recorded.

These days Richard keeps himself content with brief sojourns to the office between weekend breaks across Europe. He is quite the fan of visiting Sicily where his arrival is only outdone by the Pope's. He also has a large fanbase in Andorra but despite frequent requests from the Fanclub, he is yet to visit. Richard Bath is also the worlds leading purchaser of pastle coloured polo shirts and is a leading collector of his childrens belongings!

Currently, you can catch Richard on Westcountry Live for ITV Westcountry.