My friend and colleague Roger Green, who has died aged 76, led a double life in the 1960s and 70s as a Fleet Street journalist by day and professional wrestler by night. Later, he pursued a third career, as an artist.
Born in Havant, Hampshire, to Mervyn, a driver at Portsmouth dockyard, and Winifred (nee Woods), Roger went to Havant County secondary school and Purbrook high school before becoming a trainee reporter on the Portsmouth Evening News in 1959.
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