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Anita Syvret
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Senior reporter Make the jump from a weekly and join the 15-strong newsroom of our four-edition daily title in Cheltenham. There’s never a dull moment in the home town of GCHQ and the MP who was attacked with a Samurai
Eight editors join up
Eight new editors have joined the South West region Society of Editors, bringing the total membership there to 30. The recruitment drive and admin work has been carried out by society secretary Anita Syvret, editor of the Gloucestershire Echo. Administrative
Journalists mourn former tea lady
Staff at the Gloucestershire Echo are mourning the death of a woman who was a key figure in the newsroom – tea lady Lil Roberts. Editor Anita Syvret was among mourners at yesterday’s funeral service at Cheltenham for Mrs Roberts,
Newspaper men join Code of Practice committee
A newspaper watchdog group’s code of standards committee has two new members. Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger, and Trinity Mirror’s regional newspapers editorial director Neil Benson, are to sit on the Editors’ Code of Practice Committee, which reviews the voluntary code
Editors join forces to reverse 'baffling' proposal
The Gloucestershire Echo has joined forces with its sister paper The Citizen to send an open letter to lobby Fire & Rescue Service Minister Nick Raynsford. Editors Anita Syvret and Ian Mean invited the minister to see for himself the
Echo opposes health chiefs' plan
The Gloucestershire Echo has launched a campaign to try and prevent a hospital children’s ward from leaving the town. Health chiefs are discussing plans that could signal the closure of the 26-bed ward at Cheltenham General Hospital, with services switching
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