Jeremy Willis, the Chairman of the Newbury Weekly News, holds several lunches throughout the year with a variety of people from the local community, and yesterday I was a guest along with Stuart Tagg, the Chief Executive of The Greenham Common Trust, and John Heath, a trustee of the Colefax Trust. Also present were the Finance Director of the Newbury Weekly News, Brien Beharrell, the Editor, and Adrian Martin, the Managing Director.
We are very fortunate in Newbury to have an independant weekly paper, and Jeremy is the fifth generation of the family who founded it. I couldn't help but see the parallels with Camp Hopson, having been there just the day before - both are Newbury institutions, still family run and independant, and most importantly, both are flourishing having recently spent millions of pounds upgrading. In the case of the NWN it was to introduce new printing presses - they now print about thirty titles a week, many for other independant papers.
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