Roger is a writer and researcher who has written for various provincial newspapers, publications and county magazines for many years.

He has also worked with Mansfield 103.2 FM, Centre FM and BBC Radio Derby Sport as a football reporter, broadcaster, and co-commentator.

He is determined to keep alive the memory of King Coal and believes if we do not, then it will soon be forgotten by the generations of today and tomorrow.

Roger was born in South Normanton, Derbyshire, in April 1949 and lived there for the first 26 years of his life.