Former Pirate FM presenter and journalist Ian Polmear has died at the age of 54.
Ian was at the station for 15 years from its launch in 1992, and more recently worked in local media in his native Cornwall.
He was also a lecturer at Lincoln College and held positions at BBC Radio.
Ian’s friend and former colleague Aaron James writes this tribute for RadioToday:
“To begin to explain to those not fortunate enough to spend the 1990s and 2000s listening to Ian Polmear, you have to understand that the Pirate FM of that era was an embodiment of a very different radio era to now.