Biography
Born in New Milton, Hampshire, Wooldridge left Brockenhurst Grammar School with two school certificates, for English and art.
After National Service and an apprenticeship on newspapers in New Milton and Bournemouth, he became a reporter on the News Chronicle in 1956. After a spell with the Sunday Dispatch, he moved to the Daily Mail, which absorbed the News Chronicle in 1960
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