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'Report Monday. Manchester Evening News'... Sir Harold Evans, trailblazing newspaper editor and son of Salford, dies aged 92

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HAROLD Evans, the Patricroft, Eccles born man who was the greatest newspaper editor of our times, died this week at the age of 92.

Here, the Manchester Evening News' chief reporter, Neal Keeling, looks back at the extraordinary life and career of a legendary truth-seeker, storyteller and campaigner, whose journalism took him from the backstreets of Manchester to the skyscrapers of Manhattan.In 1944, in a  bomb-damaged city,  a 16-year-old got on his bike and pedalled from his home in Newton Heath to the offices of the Ashton-under-Lyne Reporter.

He was to be paid just £1 a week on a three-month trial, about half of what his mates were earning working in factories. He was one of a number of schoolboy reporters, filling in for men fighting.

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