Glasgow - the first 800 years

by Hugh Cochrane

64 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 1975

About the author

Hugh Cochrane (d. 1995) was a Scottish journalist. He embarked on his career in journalism at the age of 15, when he secured a job as a copy-boy with Glasgow's Evening Times. He then worked as a trainee reporter on the Kilmarnock Standard. Three years later, he returned to Glasgow to a desk job on the Noon Record, but within five months he moved to The Scotsman in Edinburgh. Eight years later he became Scottish correspondent for The Times.

Cochrane joined BBC Scotland in 1968 as a political reporter. When it launched later that same year, he worked on the Current Account programme. By 1970 he was presenting Right, Left and Centre. He was Head of News and Current Affairs at BBC Scotland between 1972 and 1974.

Cochrane returned to print journalism at the Glasgow Herald, where he covered politics and the oil industry as well as writing commentary pieces on subjects including broadcasting in Scotland.