AAP General News (Australia)
02-04-2012
QLD:Travel writer Jim Shrimpton passes aged 79
By Tony Bartlett
BRISBANE, Feb 4 AAP - One of Australia's most respected journalists, travel writer
James Shrimpton, has died at the age of 79 after a brief battle with cancer.
Mr Shrimpton joined Australian Associated Press (AAP) in 1956, and the following year
married his wife Val who was a telegraphist with the company.
He began his career at the age of 15 as a newspaper copyboy later becoming a sports
reporter and sub-editor in Birmingham, England.
He worked for newspapers in Canada and the United States, before joining …
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