# Tricia Ingrams

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| birth_name         = Patricia Ann Geaney
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'''Tricia Ingrams''' (28 March 1946 – 26 October 1996) was a journalist and interviewer best known as a reporter and presenter of [Thames Television](/source/Thames_Television)'s regional news programme ''[Thames News](/source/Thames_News)''.

She was born Patricia Ann Geaney in [Edgware](/source/Edgware), [Middlesex](/source/Middlesex) and was the eldest of four children to two Irish parents. When Ingrams was 18, her mother died suddenly and the children were orphaned.

==Career==

She started her career in journalism as a writer for a local magazine produced by the grocery chain [SPar](/source/SPAR) and went on to write for [IPC](/source/IPC_Media) magazines and appear in the national tabloid newspaper ''[The Sun](/source/The_Sun_(United_Kingdom))'' as an ''Action Girl''.<ref name="Obituary: Tricia Ingrams">[https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/obituary--tricia-ingrams-1352281.html Obituary: Tricia Ingrams], The Independent (London), 14 November 1996</ref>

Ingrams switched to broadcasting and became a presenter for the [United Biscuits Network](/source/United_Biscuits_Network), an industrial radio station which broadcast to [United Biscuits](/source/United_Biscuits) factories across the UK.<ref name="Obituary: Tricia Ingrams"/> Then in 1973, she joined [Capital Radio](/source/Capital_Radio) as a reporter and newsreader. A year later, Capital's in-house newsroom was closed down and she moved to [LBC](/source/LBC) where she presented phone-in programmes and ''The Sunday Interview''.

After helping to set up the now-defunct commercial radio station for [Portsmouth](/source/Portsmouth), [Radio Victory](/source/Radio_Victory), Ingrams returned to London and became a long-serving presenter of ''[Thames News](/source/Thames_News)'', often found presenting alongside former [ITN](/source/ITN) anchorman [Andrew Gardner](/source/Andrew_Gardner_(newsreader)).<ref>[http://tvpresenters.thetvroomplus.com/channel-35.html Thames TV presenters' profiles – The TV Room Plus]</ref>

Ingrams left Thames when the station lost its franchise in December 1992 and worked at [Anglia Television](/source/Anglia_Television) and [British Sky Broadcasting](/source/British_Sky_Broadcasting) for short periods before joining London News Radio (a short-lived replacement for LBC) as a presenter in 1994.

==Personal life==

She was married in 1972 to Paul Ingrams, who met Tricia whilst they were both working at the [United Biscuits Network](/source/United_Biscuits_Network). The marriage was dissolved thirteen years later.

On 26 October 1996, Tricia Ingrams died in London at the age of 50 from cancer.

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Category:English people of Irish descent
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