Funeral takes place for Legendary Sunday World editor, Jim McDowell, who started his career at the News Letter -  Here, we reproduce an article he penned for us in 2012 for our 275th anniversary
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Funeral takes place for Legendary Sunday World editor, Jim McDowell, who started his career at the News Letter - Here, we reproduce an article he penned for us in 2012 for our 275th anniversary

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​The first major story that newspaper legend Jim McDowell was involved in was about a young rugby player who jumped into the Lagan to save a drowning boy during a Somme Parade in the 1960s.