Radio Ryhope, the Sunderland 'station' which operated out of a shed
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You just could not keep Ryhope out of the news headlines in 1979. It’s the year when all of this happened and we want your memories of it. Amateur DJ Alan Scollan, 15, was a hit with his broadcasts from a backyard shed. His mother Olive Scollan said: “He’s got a good little selection. Sometimes I would rather listen to him than the wireless. “He puts on special records for his dad and the little ones who gather in the house with his younger sister.” Three Ryhope schoolboys were knocking on...

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