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I was lucky enough to get into journalism in what may well have proved to be its final glory years. I was trained in-house and on-the-job (rather than farmed out to some college-run, classroom-bound course) by senior reporters with years of experience; people who actually knew how to cultivate contacts and run a patch as well as write a story. This was a time when newsrooms were still populated by that increasingly rare breed, the character. People like Pat Baghdadi, for whom her Cranbrook office was an extension of her home. Or Vic Briggs, whose CV highlights included being a writer for what were once called Gentlemen's magazines, as well being a published author. There was Frank Sellens, who seemed to have been at the paper since his early teens, bar his service in the Second World War. Most of all, there was Ray Dedman, my Chief Reporter, mentor and friend, a stickler for accuracy and details. Above all, they shared a passion for finding the human element to a news story, and believed that local newspapers had a vital role to play in community life.

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