James Mollison, journalist; born November 17,1914, died September 3, 1998
Jim Mollison was the district reporter for the Herald and Evening Times in Paisley for 26 years until his retirement in 1980. His war service in the Royal Army Medical Corps was largely spent in India and that formative experience resulted in a lifelong love of travel.
His early years as a journalist were spent on the Sunday Post in Dundee before he moved west in 1954. His chronicling of events in and around Paisley included the rise and demise of the Linwood car plant and the decline of the town as a great textile centre. One of the biggest jobs of his reporting career happened unexpectedly while he was on holiday in Tenerife when hundreds of holidaymakers were killed in a plane crash at the island's airport. He is survived by his son, Ian, second wife, Bunty, and grandchildren.
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