'Brilliant and inspirational' - tributes to former Leader editor

A campaigning editor who played a key role in launching North Wales' first evening newspaper nearly 50 years ago, has died at the age of 87.
Former colleagues have hailed Peter Leaney as "one of the best in the business" and an "inspirational" mentor to dozens of young journalists.
Peter, from Cefn-y-Bedd, near Wrexham passed away on May 1 at Wrexham Maelor Hospital. He had suffered ill health for a number of years.
He was the
Leader's first news editor when the paper was launched in 1973 by the then Oswestry-based Woodalls' group, which later became North Wales Newspapers (NWN), based at Mold, before being taken over by Newsquest in 2017.

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