Kenneth Bruce Ashton (9 November 1925 – 8 September 2002) was a British journalist and trade union leader.
Ashton grew up in London, where he attended the Latymer Upper School before serving in the British Army from 1942.
[1] Stationed in Scotland for much of this time, he attended a course at the University of Glasgow, and took some casual work as a subeditor with the Daily Record.
[2] He was demobbed in 1946, and became a journalist with the Hampstead and Highgate Express, then worked successively for the Devon and Somerset News, the Mansfield Reporter and the Sheffield Star.
[1] Ashton was a long-term member of the National Union of Journalists (NUJ), and was elected to its executive in 1968.