Points West correspondents

Steve was responsible for the campaign which freed Bristol pensioner Derek Bond from being wrongly imprisoned by the FBI.

Mr Bond had been arrested by mistake and wrongly held as a terror suspect in South Africa. The FBI claimed he was on their Ten Most Wanted list, but it was a case of mistaken identity - finally proven by Steve from here in the West.

His long-running investigation into nerve gas testing on young servicemen at the Government's secret research station at Porton Down in Wiltshire has been followed by many other journalists and the rest of the world's media.

It led to the re-opening of an inquest into the death of  Ronald Maddison, a young airman who died after being exposed to nerve gas in the 1950's.

The Government was found guilty of unlawfully killing Mr Maddison.

Steve has won a number of  journalist awards for his exclusive stories and investigations. 

Before he took up his post in June 1998, Steve was BBC Points West's reporter in Wiltshire.  

He was also a member of the original team which launched Wiltshire Radio, the forerunner of GWR, and left them as deputy head of news. 

After a year as a producer at Radio Bristol, Steve left to help launch BBC Wiltshire Sound (now BBC Radio Swindon and BBC Radio Wiltshire) becoming News Editor.