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Wilts & Gloucestershire Standard
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Editor bans anti-vaccination letters from weeklies in bid to ‘save lives’
Decision made after recent protests on patch
City daily exposes pro-Brexit letters in eight local papers as ‘Russian propaganda’
Investigation revealed near-identical letters were sent to newspapers
Publisher launches fresh bid to sell historic newspaper office
Grade II-listed building has been on market for around six months
Weekly backs council move to protect former offices
‘Distinctive and beautiful building’ has been empty since office move
Newsquest proposes weekly office closure as four jobs face axe
Remaining staff faced with relocation
Long-serving editors depart in fresh Newsquest shake-up
News chiefs had more than 50 years’ service to company
Offices to close in Newsquest centralisation plan
Plans will see staff moved to one building
New editor to focus on key local issues
Neville steps up at Wiltshire Times and Chippenham News
Regional MDs appointed for Midlands and Dorset papers
Gavin Steacy and John Banks take on expanded roles
New editors for Gloucestershire papers
Skip Walker and Catherine Turnbull appointed at Newquest weeklies
New editor to oversee weekly's compact plans
Newsquest weekly the Wilts & Gloucestershire Standard is to change from broadsheet to a compact format, under the new editorship of Skip Walker. Skip is returning to the Cirencester-based title after an absence of ten years, and one of her
Steacy named MD for Wales and Gloucestershire
Ex-Trinity Mirror man joins Newsquest’s regionals division
Former Wilts editor returns from Java trip
Anne Hayes, former editor of The Wilts & Gloucestershire Standard has just returned from a five-week assignment in Java where she was helping to set up a new newspaper, Java Weekly. She went out as a volunteer to Java’s second
Standard changes
Readers have chosen the new look for the Wilts & Gloucestershire Standard -including changing the masthead from red to black. Staff of the newspaper had polled the readers, who thought a black masthead gave the Standard a more traditional feel
Smiling faces at reunion
Courtesy of Steve Richards, HoldTheFrontPage has received this photograph of the first-ever reunion of past and present staff of the Wilts & Gloucestershire Standard, at the Thames Head Inn, near Cirencester. Among the 70-plus present from Wales, Devon, Harrogate, Ipswich,