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‘YOU DESERVE A STIFF DRINK AFTER ALL OF THIS’ PRINCE CHARLES THANKS ASDA STAFF AT AVONMOUTH
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❝ Thank you, thank you very much everybody. You deserve a stiff drink after all this. Prince Charles to Asda staff
❝ Growing up in Bristol, my first job was delivering the Evening Post. And I feel very lucky to have realised my ambition to edit my hometown newspaper.
MIKE Norton is stepping down as the editor of the Bristol Post and Bristol Live after 15 years in the role.
Bristolian Mike is the secondlongest serving editor in the paper’s history, beaten only by its founding editor A J Spurl, who occupied the chair for one year longer.
Mike took up the Bristol Post editorship in 2005, after starting his career as a reporter in 1985 and working for the Hull Daily Mail, South Wales Echo and Derby Telegraph before becoming Editor of the Derby Telegraph in 2000.
For Mike, who was born in Easton and grew up in Brislington, the Post editorship brought him home and the paper and its journalists have won many awards during his tenure.
Mike said: “Growing up in Bristol, my first job was delivering the Evening Post. And I feel very lucky to have realised my ambition to edit my hometown newspaper.
“While it’s been a huge challenge to navigate the Post through very difficult economic times and a media landscape fragmented beyond recognition, I feel very fortunate to have had a 15-year backstage pass to the highs and lows of the city I love.
“At times, we have had to make significant changes to ensure the Post’s survival, but I leave as we are enjoying our largest local audiences for decades. The Post’s website, Bristol Live, is now the sixthbiggest regional news site in the country and the third-fastest growing.
“Under my editorship, I have always strived to put the Post and Bristol Live at the leading edge of news and debate in the city and to celebrate, champion and – sometimes – challenge my fellow Bristolians.
I have also worked hard to reconnect the Post with Bristol’s BAME communities and to make its content and its workforce more representative of the city it serves.
“Most significantly, I have been privileged to work with hugely talented people. Anything I have achieved will always be down to them. I will miss them very much and wish them every success in the future.”
Mike is also the editor-in-chief of the Western Daily Press and a series of weekly titles across Gloucestershire, Somerset and Dorset.
Mike’s successor will be announced in due course.