Tait, Jon: - Jon Tait is a freelance sportswriter for the local weekly newspaper titles at the Northumberland Gazette. He is the author of a number of local history books and volunteers at English Heritage. He was an agency football reporter on the tabloids for a decade and the press officer at Gretna Football Club. Tait was born in Northumberland and has been researching and writing about the border reivers for over twenty years. He likes hillwalking, techno music, hats and coats, books, beachcombing, rum, and typefaces, misses smoking Regal king-size cigarettes and lives in Carlisle with his wife, son, and cat, Charlie.