Regional press news – this story updated 16.6.2000

Death of Telegraph veteran
by HoldTheFrontPage staff

Former Belfast Telegraph chief sub-editor Sam McMurray has died.

He was attending a service at Portstewart Presbyterian Church on Tuesday when he collapsed.

Mr McMurray, who leaves a daughter, spent many years in journalism, particularly with the Belfast Telegraph and the Coleraine Constitution. He also edited the Portstewart church’s magazine.

A former minister of the church, the Rev Ronnie Wilson, said: “He was very much loved as a friendly and easy-going man who was always sensitive and diplomatic about the things he was reporting.”

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