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He was the son of Neville and Florence McElderry, brother of Oonagh, and born in Nigeria with his twin brother Dermot on January 13, 1966, two days before the Biafra coup. The family moved to Letter, Co. Fermanagh, in 1972. The twins enjoyed football and Boys’ Brigade in Pettigo. Kevin was the drummer in a group set up by John Haslett. After leaving Portora in 1984, Kevin studied French and German at Newcastle University, where his interest in journalism was sparked off. He wrote for the university newspaper and had some pieces printed in the Impartial Reporter. He then spent a year as Lektor in Rostock, the former East Germany. He studied journalism in Sheffield, and worked in Kettering, Leeds and Newcastle. In 1991 he married Ailsa Weymes from Gateshead, a fellow French and German graduate whom he met at Newcastle.