Eddie Bate retirement from the Bournemouth Echo in the mid 1980s. They are left to right, Norma Morgan, John Millington, Sue Burroughs, Cheryl Potter, Joyce ?, Frank Miller, Gordon Elsworth, Peggy Mills, Ron Vivian, Eddie Bate, Les Wherett, Eric Atwill an
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