Western Mail editor Alan Edmunds joined members of the Press Complaints Commission for its public open day in Wales.

The event, in Cardiff, was set up to show the Commission was not merely a London-centric organisation but a service for the whole country.

It hosted an afternoon drop-in session where visitors could discuss press issues with members and staff of the PCC, and a question time event where the experts could be quizzed on regulation of the newspaper industry.

Editor Alan Edmunds, former acting Commission chairman Sir Robert Pinker, Commission member Vivien Hepworth and PCC director Tim Toulmin were on the panel.

Prof Pinker told visitors to the question-and-answer session: “When we began in 1991 we were given two years at the most probation time and nobody fancied our chances of surviving very long.

“But now, without being complacent, we are established.

“When we started out, throughout the industry most editors would argue every case from round one, whereas now the vast majority are more likely to offer a correction if they feel they have stepped out of line.”

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