This week, with KEITH MACKLIN, veteran sports presenter, who is to join the team on Lancashire's newest radio station, The Burn, launched on Monday

MEMORY: I remember being taken to my first football match when I was about three at a place called Vista Park, in Newton Le Willows.

Another one that sticks in the mind was scoring the winning goal for Prescot School in the final of the Liverpool Secondary Schools Shield when I was 16.

HOLIDAY: The regular family destination, as for many people who lived in Greater Merseyside, as we did, was New Brighton. We used to hop on the ferry with the other families and head for the beach, which was always crowded.

JOB: As a copy typist for the Liverpool Evening Express, now defunct, just before I went off to do my National Service.

HOUSE: A very nice little bungalow in Widnes which I bought for an incredibly low £8,500.

PET: When I lived at home with my parents we had a series of cats. Not pedigrees, but real moggies with torn ears and the works. Proper streetfighting cats.

RECORD: I've always been much more a classical music man than a pop music fan and my first record was an orchestral recording of Sibelius' Finlandia.

CAR: I paid £50 for it and it broke down five miles from the garage where I bought it. It never went again.

LOVE: A girl at school called Joyce Edwards, when I was 10. She went off with someone else and I was heartbroken -- for at least an hour.

LIVE BROADCAST: It never actually happened. I spent a month memorising names of players for a rugby league match between Workington Town and Featherstone Rovers but the game was called off because of heavy snow. Luckily the BBC gave me another chance.

COLEMAN BALL: Another rugby league match between Hull Kingston Rovers and Leigh. It was so foggy I couldn't see the pitch and had to guess who was playing from the names in the programme. I gave one guy a storming game only to be told afterwards he hadn't even been on the pitch.