For more than 50 years, Dave Nicholson has been on the airwaves at Radio Tyneside - the hospital and community radio station perhaps most well-known for broadcasting Newcastle United commentary to those in the city's hospitals.
Now, with no plans to step back from the mic, Dave and the team at Radio Tyneside is celebrating a £50,000 grant for a project will see the station go fully digital. The money has been donated by the Newcastle Hospitals Charity, which - along with the Newcastle Hospitals NHS Trust - has long supported the station.
Speaking in the run-up to the NHS' 75th birthday, Dave - who was made an OBE last year, too - said the support was vital and much appreciated. He was presented with a cheque - much outstripping what his team had hoped for - for the digitisation project at an event with past and present Radio Tyneside faces to mark his 50th anniversary on the airwaves.
