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Mike Beevers

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Mike Beevers, 58, was born in Torquay, Devon, and attended Torquay Boys' Grammar School. During a gap year he taught English in Denmark and Germany. He was chairman of Torbay Young Conservatives and deputy chairman of Devon Young Conservatives. He left mid-way through a law degree to become a trainee journalist on the Mid-Devon Advertiser in Newton Abbot, South Devon, and was a reporter on the Teignmouth and Dawlish Advertiser. He was father of the chapel, West of England Newspapers, and the NUJ representative on the South West regional TUC. He was also chairman of South Devon NUJ. He became deputy editor of the Torbay News and editor of the Liskeard and Looe Advertiser aged 23. A number of senior roles followed, including news editor of the Sunday Independent, editor, Devon Business Review, crime correspondent of the Western Morning News, editor of Business in Yorkshire, editor of London Week and worked as a freelance 'shifter' on The Sun, Express and Sunday Mirror. His later freelance activities included writing from Moscow and Leningrad on the collapse of the Soviet Union and writing features for the New York Times, the Washington Post and The Sunday Times. He moved into public relations in 1995 as a press officer for the Army in the South West of England, a post that included working in South America and The Falklands. He was promoted to Senior Information Officer, MoD, becoming the civilian head of Royal Air Force public relations and the first Royal Air Force liaison officer with the Nuclear Accident Response Organisation (NARO). He later worked as a Conservative Party press officer and lecturer. He now runs mikeyoureditor in Cheshire, a multi-platform media firm, runs politics X, a political strategy company and continues to teach English.

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