Committee

Posted: September 16th, 2015

DAVID THOMPSON joined the Daily Mirror as a news sub-editor in 1966. Two years on he was in the political team becoming …

Posted: September 16th, 2015

TOM BROWN trained in Scotland, then worked on the Daily Express in London 1964-78 as news reporter, news and features executive, medical …

Posted: March 13th, 2017

DEBORAH THOMAS, who was appointed chairman of AMP in June 2017,  got her first journalistic job on the iconic ’60s magazine, Nova, …

Posted: September 16th, 2015

FORMER manager in the Reach pensions department CAROL MCNAMARA joined the AMP in May 2024, taking up the new post …

Posted: September 16th, 2015

RAY EVANS started at Mirror Group in 1968 as a clerk in the transport department, and later became supervisor in a new …

Posted: September 16th, 2015

CARO CLUSKEY enjoyed a long and successful career with Odhams Newspapers and Mirror Group, first on the Sunday People and latterly in …

Posted: September 16th, 2015

BILL BERENTEMFEL joined the Mirror organisation in 1961 working for the Sunday Pictorial. He transferred to IPC in 1966 when the IPC …

Posted: September 16th, 2015

JEAN CARR worked as a staff journalist for over 35 years on student, local, regional and national newspapers. She was one of …

Posted: May 21st, 2023

ROSEMARY COOK was married to Sunday Mirror photographer and much-loved FOC, Peter “Cookie” Cook.  Peter died in 2021 and Rosemary has joined …

Posted: September 16th, 2015

ROB CUNNINGHAM began work as a graphic artist, and in 1991, joined the process department of the SDR&SM until early retirement in …

Posted: September 16th, 2015

GEORGE EASTON joined the Daily Record & Sunday Mail in 1970 as Borders/North of England circulation representative. He moved to Glasgow in …

Posted: June 16th, 2021

THE AMP Committee needed strengthening following the sad departures of members Richard Polyblank and, more recently, Peter Cook, as well as Stephanie …

Posted: May 28th, 2022

BOB MILLER recently replaced Russell Stewart on the AMP Committee. Russell has become an MGNPS Trustee Director.

After working in heavy industry in …

Posted: September 16th, 2015

ISABEL MULLIGAN joined the Scottish Daily Record & Sunday Mail working in tele-sales. She moved over to advertising make-up and learned to …

Posted: October 23rd, 2017

TONY PATEY was a rookie reporter on the Hertfordshire Mercury, and had stints with East London News Agency and the Bucks Herald, …

Posted: September 16th, 2015

BILL ROWNTREE worked his first Saturday shift for then Sunday Mirror picture editor Derek Jameson in 1964. Bill was sent to watch …

Posted: September 16th, 2015

MALCOLM SPEED retired from the Daily Record in 2006 after more than 40 years’ pensionable service. He had been news editor of …

Posted: September 16th, 2015

DAVID TATTERSALL started as a journalist in 1964 on the Lancashire Evening Telegraph in Blackburn, followed by a stint on The Journal in Newcastle …

Posted: September 16th, 2015

DENNIS TINKER was born in South Africa in 1949, and in 1956 travelled to England on the Carnarvon Castle ship with his …

Posted: September 16th, 2015

RAY WEAVER entered newspapers in 1961 aged 20 as a photographer on the South East London Mercury. In 1964 he joined the …

Posted: September 16th, 2015

MONTY COURT came to the AMP committee after a lifetime in Fleet Street. Following five years on provincial newspapers he joined the Evening …

Posted: November 7th, 2019

JOHN HEMPLE joined the Daily Mirror in 1960, one day before his fifteenth birthday. During a 41-year career with the company he …

Posted: September 16th, 2015

ALAN SHILLUM studied engineering but entered newspapers in 1958 aged 24 as a reporter on the Walthamstow Guardian. In 1961 he became …

Posted: September 16th, 2015

PATRICIA SMYLLIE began her career in the Foreign Office (Berlin, London). She later became the Daily Mail’s junior foreign correspondent, then filled …