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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.

Family pay tribute to former editor of coastal titles Andrew Martin

A FAMILY has paid tribute to a committed coastal newspaper editor who had been in the industry for more than 50 years. Andrew Martin, who was living in Conwy Valley at the time of his death, started his newspaper career in 1968. His first job had been in printing. He did this for six months before securing a job as junior reporter on The Banbury Advertiser. After a couple of years, he got a reporting job on the Banbury Guardian as a sports reporter. He worked for Radio Oxford reporting on the local football team Banbury United. He then moved to Malvern, Worcestershire, where he was made editor of the Malvern Gazette before becoming editor of the Evesham Journal and then, the Worcester Evening News.

Tributes paid to former Worcester Evening News editor of coastal titles Andrew Martin

Andrew Martin was the editor of the Evening News in the 1990s - now known as Worcester News. Veteran Worcester News reporter Mike Pryce said: He was great at the job and a very good cricketer. When he left, he edited on other titles and this doesn t surprise me. David  Wood, former sub-editor at the Worcester News  and Cotswold Journal said: Andrew took me on as a sub-editor at Worcester in 1997. I only worked for him for a relatively short time but my abiding memory was my job interview. It was more of an informal chat than a grilling.  I was living in Shipston-on-Stour in Warwickshire at the time, about an hour away, and Andrew s main question to me was How long will it take you to drive from Shipston to Worcester? .  

Tributes paid to former newspaper editor of coastal titles Andrew Martin

TRIBUTES are being paid to a committed coastal newspaper editor who died suddenly aged 69. Andrew Martin took over from Steve Rogers as editor of the coastal titles, including the Rhyl Journal, North Wales Pioneer and North Wales Chronicle, in 2012. He had been with the company, then NWN Media now Newsquest, for six years. During that period, he also edited the Denbighshire Free Press. Andrew, who was married to Sue, 68, planned to retire late 2019 / early 2020 but continued to remain an essential part of the team throughout the pandemic, helping and offering advice in the background as well as a listening ear.

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