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The Recorder's press baron before Ken was Pamela Mitchell. Pamela first crossed paths with Ken when she reported on a meeting at the Community Centre protesting against the new Graffiti Club in April 1983. As community development officer, Ken chaired the meeting. Despite support from the local residents, the protest failed to stop the club venture, but Pamela thought Ken put his views across well and asked him to write an article for the Recorder about any local interest issue. Ken chose to attack the council's inaction over the number of children run over Clifton Road, namely the promise of a footbridge which had not materialised. As Ken had no journalistic experience, his article was heavily edited by Pamela, much to his ire.

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rdfs:label	Weatherfield Recorder
rdfs:comment	The Recorder's press baron before Ken was Pamela Mitchell. Pamela first crossed paths with Ken when she reported on a meeting at the Community Centre protesting against the new Graffiti Club in April 1983. As community development officer, Ken chaired the meeting. Despite support from the local residents, the protest failed to stop the club venture, but Pamela thought Ken put his views across well and asked him to write an article for the Recorder about any local interest issue. Ken chose to attack the council's inaction over the number of children run over Clifton Road, namely the promise of a footbridge which had not materialised. As Ken had no journalistic experience, his article was heavily edited by Pamela, much to his ire.
dcterms:subject	Weatherfield businesses Weatherfield businesses Newspapers and publications Newspapers and publications
abstract	The Recorder's press baron before Ken was Pamela Mitchell. Pamela first crossed paths with Ken when she reported on a meeting at the Community Centre protesting against the new Graffiti Club in April 1983. As community development officer, Ken chaired the meeting. Despite support from the local residents, the protest failed to stop the club venture, but Pamela thought Ken put his views across well and asked him to write an article for the Recorder about any local interest issue. Ken chose to attack the council's inaction over the number of children run over Clifton Road, namely the promise of a footbridge which had not materialised. As Ken had no journalistic experience, his article was heavily edited by Pamela, much to his ire. A few weeks later, Pamela decided to start an advice column and talked Ken into becoming the paper's Agony Uncle on a trial basis. They developed a close professional relationship, with Ken trusting Pamela enough to leak her a confidential report from the council proving that figures showing that Youth Clubs weren't being used were fabricated, as an excuse to close them. Pamela kept her source's identity secret, but Ken told his bosses himself and was forced to take voluntary redundancy. In September, Pamela left the Recorder to run a newspaper in Nottingham and suggested that Ken see the free sheet's owner, Bob Statham, about replacing her. Running the show on his own and hating it, Bob offered Ken the job of editor as long as he bought into the paper. Eager for a new challenge, Ken bought a 40% share, spending all of his redundancy and his and Deirdre's savings to do so.

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