Rick Austen's history

Rick Austen is Kate’s friend. He’s always there to help her, but he had some problems with his work and he can’t help her as much as she would need.
He is a reporter on “the Daily Echo”. His first job had been in a small town in Scotland where he spent two years writing about sheep stealing. Now he’s writing about crime and diamonds stealing.
He studied journalism at the Journalist academy of Manchester. But because of some problems with his family, he had to go to Scotland for work. In Scotland he worked in a newspaper called “The fresh news” for two years. Then, he came to Manchester to work in “the Daily Echo”.