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We published our first ever coronavirus story a year ago today.
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A year ago today the East Anglian Daily Times published its first coronavirus story - just four days before the first case of the deadly virus was confirmed in the UK.
The story, published on January 27 2020, came a few days after the threat level of the virus was increased by the health secretary Matt Hancock from very low to low .
It revealed that the University of Essex, which has a campus in Colchester, was in close contact with the government s health department amid the coronavirus outbreak - now known widely as Covid-19.
David Lennard was editor of the Beccles & Bungay Journal
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Suffolk journalist David Lennard has died after a lifetime of bringing the news to communities across east Suffolk.
Mr Lennard was born in Alderton, near Hollesley, in 1952 and joined the East Anglian Daily Times when he was 15 to train as a compositor. In the mid-1980s as new technology started to change the way newspapers were produced, he retrained as a journalist.
In 1987 he and his family moved to Halesworth where he was the EADT s chief reporter before moving to the Eastern Daily Press office in Lowestoft, eventually becoming editor and chief reporter of the Beccles and Bungay Journal.