Mel Hague

With the help of a toy railway engine made by his father, Hague learned to walk when he was three and half years old.

At nine years of age, Hague went to Canada with his parents, where he received treatment at the Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children.

[2] In his teens, while at school in Oakville, Ontario, Hague took part in and won a mock election to "replace" the local mayor.

In 1966, Hague turned professional and made his first recording, called "Mule Train", and married Ivy.

[2] Hague spent ten years with BBC Radio Sheffield presenting a weekly one-hour country music programme.

In 1998, he set out to realise a lifelong ambition to become a novelist and has since written three westerns, To Hell with the Badge, Death on a Rope and Twisted River, and a horror novel, The Grey Man.