David Lennard was editor of the Beccles & Bungay Journal
- Credit: Nick Butcher
Suffolk journalist David Lennard has died after a lifetime of bringing the news to communities across east Suffolk.
Mr Lennard was born in Alderton, near Hollesley, in 1952 and joined the East Anglian Daily Times when he was 15 to train as a compositor. In the mid-1980s as new technology started to change the way newspapers were produced, he retrained as a journalist.
In 1987 he and his family moved to Halesworth where he was the EADT s chief reporter before moving to the Eastern Daily Press office in Lowestoft, eventually becoming editor and chief reporter of the Beccles and Bungay Journal.
David Lennard was editor of the Beccles & Bungay Journal
- Credit: Nick Butcher
Suffolk journalist David Lennard has died after a lifetime of bringing the news to communities across east Suffolk.
Mr Lennard was born in Alderton, near Hollesley, in 1952 and joined the East Anglian Daily Times when he was 15 to train as a compositor. In the mid-1980s as new technology started to change the way newspapers were produced, he retrained as a journalist.
In 1987 he and his family moved to Halesworth where he was the EADT s chief reporter before moving to the Eastern Daily Press office in Lowestoft, eventually becoming editor and chief reporter of the Beccles and Bungay Journal.
Another eleventh-century medieval Chinese coin found in England
A previous post discussed a find of a Northern Song dynasty Chinese coin from England whose context suggested that it may have been a genuine ancient loss from the medieval period, along with a variety of textual and archaeological evidence for contact between England and East Asia in the Middle Ages. The following post returns briefly to this question, noting the recent discovery of a second Northern Song dynasty coin from England.
A copper-alloy Chinese coin of the Northern Song emperor Zhenzong, dated 1008–16, found near Petersfield, Hampshire (image: PAS).
The coin in question was issued between
TRIBUTES have been paid to a “heavy duty worker” who spent more than three decades of his life revolutionising the photography department of The Gazette. Ron Boshier initially joined this newspaper as a photographer when it was still known as the Hants & Berks Gazette, and his 31-year career saw him become Picture Editor. Ron passed away on Tuesday (January 12) evening at the age of 95 after contracting Covid-19. Paying tribute, his youngest son David said: “He was a bit of a charmer. He was very professional and was definitely a family man but his life was The Gazette.
Ron covered many of Basingstoke s biggest stories during his time at The Gazette.
Doubts Cast on the Chinese Coins
In 2018, the Portable Antiquities Scheme described the worn coin from Cheshire as a cast copper alloy piece minted during the Xining reign (1068 -1077 AD.) They declared “It is doubtful that this is a genuine medieval find (i.e. present in the country due to trade and lost accidentally) but more likely a more recent loss from an [sic] curated collection.” But Dr. Green worries the ‘loss from a curated collection’ explanation for unusual discoveries is overused, writing,
“although the possibility of a loss from a curated collection certainly cannot be discounted, it can be perhaps overused as an explanation for surprising finds as