A unique reunion of Eastern Daily Press staff has been held, bringing together the complete line-up of business editors dating back to 1982.

For the first time, all the Archant Norfolk title's business editors and their staff spanning three decades got together under one roof.

The event, held in Norwich, saw Janet Tytheridge (nee Statham), Roy Strowger, Richard Bond, Ken Hurst, Bill Woodcock, Ian Bullock, Steve Cox, and current business editor Chris Starkie, meet up for a meal.

Steve Cox said: "We had an unbroken line of six business editors from Janet to the present incumbent Chris. They span more than 20 years and they all still live in Norfolk.

Chris said: "It was a fun night - a bit like a Dr Who Time Lords reunion."

Former industrial editor Roy wrote a column on the event for the EDP and said: "Every past and present member of the business desk was invited, as long as they could walk and talk – pretty well the criteria which got them the job in the first place.

"You can imagine the atmosphere generated by the event. A group of greying fuddy-duddy stalwarts in shabby suits propping up the bar and talking about the great days of business when the steam engine ruled and wicked bosses would rule their principally communist workforces with a rod of British Steel."

After an evening spent debating unit trusts, private equity interest, the alternative investment market and high pressure wellhead maintenance, the evening came to an end all too quickly "rather like a company slipping rapidly towards liquidation," said Roy.