Growing up in Ramsbottom journalism ran in the blood for Alison Towner. Her late father Eric Towner was a renowned news reporter for the Manchester Evening News and Alison followed in his footsteps with a two week work experience stint at the paper's former Deansgate office while she was at high school.
She shadowed reporters, learned how to help type up and edit articles and accompanied a sports editor to Old Trafford to sit in on their interview with Sir Alex Ferguson. "Journalism was very different in my father's days," she recalled. "I still vividly remember that office as a kid all his amazing colleagues and his iconic type writer." But it was her writer father's novel about salmon migration that led her to another very different
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