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Gareth Weekes
Former Chairman , Deep South Media
Gareth Weekes edited weekly newspapers in Tavistock and Salisbury before becoming Editor of the Bournemouth Daily Echo. In 1998 he launched Deep South Media, a communications consultancy. He trained hundreds of journalists through his courses for the Commonwealth Press Union. Gareth retired in 2022.