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Welsh move for Echo man

David Hardy is to become the new editor of the Carmarthen Journal. Currently assistant editor of the Gloucestershire Echo, he will join the Welsh title on October 6. He will take over from Alan Osborn who is retiring after 20

Editor to retire after 20 years

Alan Osborn, editor of the Carmarthen Journal for the past 20 years, is to retire. The 61-year-old has spent his entire career with the Northcliffe group, joining the South Wales Evening Post as a copy boy in 1956. Later he

News in brief

Staff at the Carmarthen Journal have taken up the Welsh learning challenge as part of Welsh Learning Week which aims to encourage people to take up the language.Journal employees received a visit from S4C’s TV tutor Nia Parry who is

Star editor on the move

The editor of the Llanelli Star is moving to the paper’s sister daily publication. Robert Lloyd is to take up the position of deputy editor at the South Wales Evening Post at the end of October. The move will see

Editorship for Peter

Former regional newspaper reporter Peter Roberts has been appointed editor of the Farmers’ Union of Wales’s monthly newspaper Welsh Farmer. Peter, (53), who is the union’s press officer, will now also edit the paper, which was relaunched in a new

Into the war zone…

Reporter Rachael Misstear fires her first shot – not in anger – as she joins the Territorial Army on exercise on the Rock of Gibraltar. This article was the last of her dispatches for the Carmarthen Journal. Guns have never

Slippery slope to success

Claire Griffiths, of the Carmarthen Journal, finds out that dry ski slopes aren’t too bad – and can’t wait to try the real thing. It was a lazy Sunday afternoon, pouring with rain, and I was expected to strap two

News in brief

A front page splash by the Manchester Evening News to appeal for a bone marrow donor to save the life of seven-year-old Shannon Bradshaw led to more than 600 people queuing for blood tests in the hope they could help

Tone up and slim down with Lee!

Carmarthen Journal reporter Lee MacGregor joined businessman Andrew Bassett in a county-wide campaign to tone up and slim down. He will chronicle their efforts for Journal readers in the coming months but gives an insight in the first of the

News in brief

The Hull Daily Mail’s chosen charity of the year for 2001 is benefiting from the generosity of readers, after one of two minibuses was handed over to a county blind group.Assistant editor Marc Astley handed over the keys and said:

News in brief

Police seized a haul of dangerous video recorders, TVs and camcorders after an appeal in the Carmarthen Journal prompted two readers to supply information to the police.Officers pounced on a man trying to sell the goods, many of which had

Welsh journalist David dies

Former Western Mail journalist David Hewitt has died, aged 70. He began his journalism career at the Carmarthen Journal, before joining the Western Mail and South Wales Echo as a staff reporter in the early 1950s. He later became the

Former Wales reporterdies abroad

A former journalist and motoring enthusiast from South Wales has died of a sudden heart attack in Dubai. Mike Williams, (56), started in journalism as a junior reporter with the Carmarthen Journal before becoming a reporter with the Herald of

Gloria in desk exit

One of the Carmarthen Journal’s longest-serving members of staff has retired after almost 29 years as the public face of the newspaper. Gloria “Glo” Arundel has been greeting people at the reception desk since 1972. Hundreds of staff over the

Heartwarming appeal from the Journal

Readers have been urged to Have a Heart and give money to a new Carmarthen Journal campaign. The £50,000 appeal has been launched by the newspaper to get police cars fitted out with heart defibrillators. The lap-top sized machines can

Village news writer dies, 90

One of the country’s oldest village correspondents has died, aged 90. David Smith had been supplying news from Llangyndeyrn to the Carmarthen Journal for more than 50 years. He was a vital part of village life and kept the village