Former Guardian journalist and television presenter who became one of the first environment correspondent for the BBC

Guardian journalists

Some stay for life, while others leave. Ian Breach, died at age 72, was in the second grade at the time of your stay. He joined the department as deputy editor of Manchester has Young in May 1964. In 1972, he was the critical role of jazz, becoming the first technology correspondent, and in fact, his first "anti-race" motorsport correspondent. Environmental concerns increasingly facing new road test cars.

The story goes that director Ian went to the austere Alastair Hetherington, suggesting that what was needed was a corresponding transportation Guardian. "Really?" Hetherington said: "I love driving my Jaguar." Ian has left a few months later, the paper identified a corresponding transport

The Guardian Ian

path was unconventional. At age 16, Manchester GCES boy worker with few, took an apprenticeship through Marine Engineering Bolton Technical College and Royal Dutch Shell. License in the summer of 1959, he met his future wife, Jacky, and actually left the ship to reach London. Ian got a job in public relations and journalism technique. His potential was spotted by Guardian Anthony Tucker, who quickly became the science correspondent.

first hand knowledge of the technology has

Ian talk in detail with experts like Walt Patterson, of Friends of the Earth, and describe complex issues in an understandable way. Passionate about art and the environment, spiritual, but unlike credible had the nerve, for example, exposing the industry, matching "gift" automobile while the Guardian.

the mid 1970s Ian, Jacky and her daughter, Emmie, had moved north of Milburn, a village in Cumbria Cross Fell. His first act was provocative Milburn generally make a film about the life of people. Restless ambition then taken to Tokyo for six months as chief speechwriter for the United Nations University.

Back to home

, policy Ian specialty energy, which strives to serve the 1977 hearings of the inquiry into the Windscale reprocessing commercial proposed by British Nuclear Fuels (BNFL) Sellafield. The Financial Times and New Scientist has moved quickly to hire him.

After research staff refused to work FT, but wrote an important Penguin Special Windscale Fallout: A Guide to the era of the nuclear dispute. The pocket book is a balanced account of the investigation and the Callaghan government's decision in 1978 to approve the thermal oxide reprocessing plant (THORP). However, their conclusion is inflexible. "The politics of nuclear power and reprocessing will be more disappointment, anger, frustration and mistrust. Will all be the losers. "

Meanwhile, Ian became a freelance journalist for the BBC Newcastle Cumbria. It looked like a natural. But his first attempt to talk to the camera caused an angry reaction from his former comrade: "It's too long, too wordy, and you do not use your eyes, I do not care if you worked Throughout the Bible, not the sun .. will use it. "

If the 1990s were difficult for him professionally, Jacky has prospered, Chris Mullins has office Sunderland South constituency. Jacky died suddenly in 1999. She asked for a funeral humanist who helped plan Ian. Shortly after, he was asked if he was interested in training to be a humanist officiant. Indeed, it was. Some 13 years and more than 1,000 funeral later humanist ended in December 2012 for a young mother who died of cancer Carlisle. She died of lung cancer.

ceremonies approached Ian with the diligence of a journalist and the style of a television presenter. He had a unique ability to recreate and celebrate life calibrate.

Ian survive Wendy, his second wife, Emmie, four stepchildren, five grandchildren and one great grandchild.
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