Tributes paid to former council leader and BBC news producer John McManus
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manchestereveningnews.co.ukHeartfelt family tributes have been paid to a former council leader and BBC news producer who passed away on May 9, aged 86.
Former journalist and lecturer John McManus, who worked for BBC Look North West and Radio Manchester before also becoming leader of Rossendale council, tragically died after a three week stay in hospital.
The 86-year-old grandad, who first started out as a reporter for the Shield's Gazette in South Shields before working in Manchester.
He had met his wife Pamela on the job - after he was sent to interview her when she had covered a burning chip pan with a wet cloth and ran out of the house with it, saving her parents’ home.
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