TIMES REUNION

Former reporter John Wright, now running a public relations company, has been in touch today to put his name down for next summer's Brigg reunion to mark the 25th anniversary of the closure of the Lincolnshire Times, whose editorial offices were at 57 Wrawby Street.
John says he's pleased to see the memory of the newspaper is being kept alive as it served the local community very well.
He recalls news editor Edward (Ted) Dodd going round town in his Morris 1000 with the ears of Loony, his black spaniel, flying out of the window. Doddy, he says, was a magnificent teacher of junior reporters like himself, but a hard taskmaster.
"In those days we started work at about 8am by making the fire in the newsroom on the first floor and finished about 9.30 at night, or even latr, putting the news packets into the station mailbox before heading off to the Angel Hotel for a pint with Tom Almey or to the Black Bull (opposite) when John Donovan was the landlord."