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Tough attended Clydebank High School, where he was head boy in his final year.
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Tough, who started his career in Scottish newspapers and edited his first title at 19, moved to London and the magazine industry in 1983. In the early 1990s, he edited the short-lived United Kingdom edition of television Guide, before joining TVTimes as deputy editor and was launch editor of television & Satellite Week. Tough launched IPC Media"s digital initiative in 1994 and, as new media editor-in-chief and publishing director, was involved in all of IPC’s early digital projects, including the Milia d’Or award-winning Civil Defense-Rom magazine, UnZip, and the United Kingdom"s first digital EPG. In 2002 he edited IPC’s market-leading Web User, before taking over as editor of Britain’s best-selling magazine, What’s On television Three years later he launched the United Kingdom’s first compact television magazine, television easy
In addition to his journalistic work, Tough also devised Sounds Like Music, an afternoon game show which ran for two 26-show series on Independent Television.
