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My local newspaper days

Published by Emma Lee-Potter in on Saturday 13th September 2014

Back in the mists of time I started my journalistic career as a Mirror Group Newspapers trainee in Plymouth. After eight weeks training – holed up in an unglamorous Portakabin learning the rudiments of news reporting, shorthand, law and local government – we were flung out to work on weekly newspapers across Devon and Cornwall. Fiona Millar and Alastair Campbell were sent to the Tavistock Times, my great friend Marion ...keep reading