Arthur Firth was an editor of the Daily Express between June 1980 and October 1981.
[1] He replaced Derek Jameson as editor.
[2] Firth started his career at the Lancashire Evening Post, a local daily newspaper then based on Fishergate in Preston, Lancashire.
After a spell as a sub-editor on the Daily Herald in Manchester, at 32 he gained a position as a sub-editor at the Daily Express and rose to become northern editor 12 years later and deputy editor under Derek Jameson 6 years after that.
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