Fifty years a journalist

Fifty years a journalist

Judith Phillips is a longstanding friend of Llandudno Rotary and so it was a capacity crowd of 30 members, friends and visitors who came to Cae Mor Hotel, Llandudno on Tuesday 19^th March to hear Judith talk about her 50+ years in journalism

Judith worked for some time with a London PR agency but most of her career has been with North Wales Weekly News and the Daily Post and Judith still writes a weekly column for each paper

Judith began as an apprentice and took us through a selection of her more bizarre experiences, which included interviewing a widow across the open coffin (the deceased was the topic of the interview), an encounter with Paul McCartney minus his trousers (don’t ask, Judith said – but we did!), driving a Challenger tank, being introduced to the Duke of Edinburgh as a “hottie” (sadly no footage survives) and flying an RAF Hercules plane. Archbishop Runcie and Bank of England Governor Mervyn King also had walk-on parts in this rolling drama.

We were also pleased to welcome Rtn. Simon Wheeler and his wife Sandra; Simon is this year’s President of Cheltenham Rotary. Paul and Marie of North Wales Business Energy also paid us another welcome visit. All in all, a night that buzzed!