Committee

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: November 7th, 2019

ROY WHITE started in 1956 at Hulton Press as a clerk. When Odhams took the company over in 1959 Hultons changed its …

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: 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

Gerald Mowbray spent most of his working life in the general printing industry in various management positions before moving to MGN and …

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: 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: September 16th, 2015

PETER COOK started work as a tape room boy at the Mirror at Christmas 1954/5. In 1957 he began a five-year apprenticeship …

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: September 16th, 2015

STEPHANIE KERSTEIN left the Mirror in 1993 after Maxwell’s death. She worked as a researcher in the Live Letters department, working with …

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

DICK POLYBLANK started work at Mirror Group in 1974 and by the time he moved on in 1994, he was financial controller …

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

RUSSELL STEWART left the Daily Record through voluntary redundancy in 2004, after 33 years service.  His Record career began in Hope Street …

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: September 16th, 2015

DAVID ROBERTSON joined the Daily Record and Sunday Mail as a photographer in 1969. He was active in the SDR&SM NUJ Chapel …

Posted: September 16th, 2015

CRAWFORD McAFEE has been an AMP Committee Member for several years. He is now fully retired after a sub-editing career spanning 49 …

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 …