Career
Douglas was a reporter and then studio presenter on British Broadcasting Corporation Scotland"s evening news programme Reporting Scotland from 1978 to 1996. He has worked on newspapers and radio throughout his journalistic career which has spanned over forty years, starting at the Comet Newspaper, Hitchin, Hertfordshire. He spent four years working in British Broadcasting Corporation Local Radio in Carlisle and Humberside before returning to British Broadcasting Corporation Scotland.
Douglas is a former founding director of The Broadcasting Business Limited, a media consultancy specialising in media awareness and presentation skills training and crisis management.
He still works as a media consultant for several high-profile clients including Police Scotland. Douglas still writes extensively about driving and cars as a freelance motoring correspondent, contributing to websites, newspapers and British Broadcasting Corporation Radio and television Scotland and Scottish Television on motoring and transport issues.
He is the proud owner of a pristine 1994 Jaguar XJ6 which only goes on the road in the summer months - and never in the rain.
