A FORMER pupil of Pentlepoir School and Greenhill School, Tenby, is certainly climbing the ladder of the newspaper world. Now aged 36, Alison Gow, daughter of the late Mr. Richard Williams and Mrs. Ruth Williams, of Pleasant Valley, Stepaside, has recently been appointed deputy editor of the Liverpool Daily Post. Alison, though, had her first taste of the industry when as a teenager she spent a year with us here at the Tenby Observer, firstly on work experience and later as a junior reporter. That was nearly 20 years ago, after which Alison joined neighbouring Pembrokeshire newspaper, the Western Telegraph, before leaving the area to work on a number of publications in England, including the Gloucester Citizen, the Southampton Daily Echo and the Portsmouth News. Married to Stephen, she subsequently returned to Wales as assistant editor of the South Wales Argus in Newport, before again heading back over the border to become news editor of the Liverpool Echo. Having spent three years in that role, Alison, who lives in Windle, near Rainford, St. Helens, took up her new position as deputy editor of sister paper, the Liverpool Daily Post, earlier this summer. Congratulations Alison... and to think it all started on the Observer!
