A quartet of editorial staff from Norfolk are retiring this month after totting up 125 years of service to Archant between them.

Evening News sub editor Hugh Gayler retired at the beginning of December after 23 years with ECNG and Archant, working for at least six different editors.

He joined the company as a sub in 1979 after working for the Peterborough Evening Telegraph.

Editorial training manager, Tim Lenton, is taking early retirement today after 30 years to concentrate on his fiction writing and walking. He will continue to help out as an NVQ verifier for Archant’s journalism training scheme.

He joined the company as an Eastern Daily Press sub from the Acton Gazette in July 1972 and became chief sub on the EDP in 1985. He joined the editorial training centre as a tutor in 1991 and worked there until it closed in 1994 going on to establish the present NVQ system of training.

Tim has also been involved with newspapers in education and has visited many schools organising News Days and giving advice about journalism as a career.

Also retiring today after 29 years service is Norfolk weeklies sub editor Malcolm Chamberlin. He joined the company in 1973 as a sub on the Evening News having previously worked as a printer in Norwich, a reporter in Middlesex and Surrey and also for IPC Magazines as a feature writer.

He moved over to the features department in 1980 as a writer/sub for ad features.

Finally, after an admirable 43 years with the company, Norfolk weeklies sub editor Frank Gordon retired today.

He joined as a trainee reporter in 1959 and worked in district offices including Yarmouth, King’s Lynn and Beccles. He transferred to the EDP London office as a reporter in 1967 where he worked until 1971.

He then returned to Norwich and transferred to the weeklies as a sub-editor in 1985.

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