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Ronnie Hoyle

Who is Ronnie Hoyle

NO STRANGER to journalism, Ronnie Hoyle has been writing since he was eleven – ‘The butler did it in my first book, which I never completed’ – and has been working in newspapers since he left school at the age of 16 in Sussex, England (he even joined a class of 25 girls while at school to learn shorthand and typing, long before computers were invented, to help him achieve his ambition!).

Now nearer pension age and having introduced computers to newspaper production in England, he is still writing but now helping to promote the Philippine tourist industry, especially around Bohol and Alona Beach where he currently lives.

Reporting on everything from local ‘car prangs to plane crashes,’ he has been a journalist and editor (‘I was my own tea-boy as well!’) for weekly and daily newspapers (at one time he was writing under a dozen different pen-names, including Annabelle Amber!) and ended up starting his own newspapers in Cornwall (they now average 80-plus pages in full colour!) as well as writing local history and mystery books: he came to the Philippines over a decade ago because his son decided to settle down in the Visayas, where his son runs his own businesses.

Now a board member of Alona Beach Community Foundation, articles by Ronnie have appeared regularly each month since the beginning in the free tourist-orientated Cebu and Boracay editions of the Philippine wide magazine, run by another English friend, and he also helps out by providing material for several websites…including this one!
 

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