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Tribute to Carol Trewin - 1953-2009
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Cornwall was the home ground of journalist Carol Trewin, whose most memorable reporting came during the foot-and-mouth outbreak in 2001. She was then farming editor of the Western Morning News, which covered an area of the country most badly hit by the disease. Her natural empathy with the plight of farming families who were affected won her many admirers. Trewin joined the paper after a career at the BBC where she worked on the programmes, On Your Farm and Farming Today. She quickly established herself as a champion of a rural community which was feeling increasingly neglected by government. She did much to publicise the regions produce, spending four years working for Taste of the West, an organisation which campaigned on behalf of local food producers.
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