All change again at DC Thomson as Sunday Post deputy steps down
To mark a period of change that has seen the editors of the Beano, Evening Telegraph, Courier and Weekly News leave, DC Thomson has announced a Sunday Post deputy editor is to retire.
This follows hard of the heels of announcements that the editors of the Post's sister titles – The Courier, Evening Telegraph and the Weekly News are stepping down, its Glasgow Print plant is to close and even the editor of The Beano has retired.
Staff have been called to a meeting today to bring them up to speed on planned changes for the business.
Meanwhile, the company issued a statement about Colin Grant, the deputy editor for the Sunday Post in Glasgow who is retiring. It read “He has made an outstanding contribution to the paper. Among his notable achievements was the establishment of the award-winning CHAS (Children’s Hospice Association Scotland) campaign, which Colin ran single-handedly for four years from 2001-2005. During that period the paper raised as record £4 million which helped build and run Scotland’s second children’s hospice, Robin House, near Loch Lomond. In addition, he created the highly-successful Scottish Curry Awards, now in their fourth year."
The memo also said that Grant, who joined the paper in 1978, and was latterly responsible for its operations in Glasgow, had worked closely with new editor Donald Martin in helping him 'modernise' the paper.