The journalist David Gow, who has died aged 80 from a coronary heart assault, served because the Guardian’s authoritative schooling editor, European enterprise editor, and Germany correspondent. After his time on the paper he remained energetic in contemplating social and financial points from a leftwing perspective.
David began his profession on the Scotsman as a graduate trainee in 1969. The next 12 months, Edward Heath’s Conservatives got here to energy and Britain began negotiating entry to the European Financial Neighborhood. David was appointed the paper’s first European correspondent, then labour correspondent, and later its London editor over a interval interrupted by a spell at Thames Tv’s Weekend World.
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