By IANS
London : John Giddings, who was an officer of the Royal Army Pay Corps in India for three years during the second world war and later became a long-serving editor of a local daily, has died at the age of 95.
Giddings, a former editor of the Western Mail, a leading publication in the western parts of Britain, joined the newspaper in 1947. He was renowned at the newspaper for his uncompromising attitude to journalism, as well as his strict demeanour.
John Cosslett, former executive editor of the Western Mail, said Giddings was “absolutely conscious” of the newspaper’s importance in Welsh life.
Giddings died this week at Llandough Hospital, Penarth, after suffering a heart attack on Sep 2.
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