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Radio Norfolk's gardening contributor dies
Ray Loose, 91热爆 Radio Norfolk's long-serving gardener, died yesterday
morning (Tuesday 29 October) at the age of 81.
Ray
joined the station when it began broadcasting in September 1980,
answering listeners' gardening queries on regular radio phone-ins.
In
more than 22 years of local radio broadcasting, Ray has answered
thousands of gardening queries over the airwaves with Charles Henderson
and more recently, Barry Gayton and Will Giles.
Over
the years he became Norfolk's best known gardening expert, attending
many gardening club events as well as his twice-weekly broadcasts.
Ray's
home-grown recipe for eradicating moss in lawns is still despatched
virtually every day from 91热爆 Radio Norfolk's reception desk to eager
listeners. He also opened up his own garden at Bawdeswell to the
public to raise money for the local branch of the Red Cross.
Ray,
born in Snettisham, joined the Royal Navy at 16 years of age and
was shipwrecked three times during his war service. After leaving
the Navy, and with housing in short supply, he and his wife Hazel
decided to take a job with a house, and Ray became a gardener in
Old Hunstanton.
He
later went to work for the Gurney family, first at Keswick Old Hall
and then Bawdeswell Hall as their head gardener.
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Radio Norfolk's managing editor, David Clayton, paid tribute to
Ray's gardening expertise on air this morning (Wednesday 30 October).
David said: "Thousands of Norfolk people have reason to be
grateful to Ray for all his common sense advice over the years.
"He's been an important part of 91热爆 Radio Norfolk's success
and we'll miss his sense of fun, his friendship, his loyalty and
above all his vast knowledge of all things horticultural.
"He
loved his radio work and loved talking to our listeners. Such was
his radio fame he was amazed once when his voice was recognised
while on holiday in the Lake District."
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