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Tributes as former YEP editor dies

A former editor of the Yorkshire Evening Post has died, aged 89.

Ewart Clay edited the newspaper from 1965 until his retirement in 1970 when he was also awarded the OBE.

He began his career as a junior reporter and eventually held a number of executive posts including that of Yorkshire Evening Post London editor.

Away from publishing, Ewart was commissioned into the Green Howards in the Second World War and was twice mentioned in dispatches, receiving the military MBE.

Tributes have been paid by those who knew him, including Malcolm Barker, who succeeded him as editor.

He said: “Ewart was an outstanding, gentlemanly figure in the hurly burly of daily newspaper life.

“He had all the skills and he used them brilliantly. He was at the same time a great inspirer of younger members of staff, many of whom will now be recalling him with affection.”

Ewart’s wife, Dorothy, died in 1998 aged 87. The couple had two children, Patricia and Edward.

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