Brian and Maggie Dyer on their wedding day in Ipswich in 1961
- Credit: Brian and Maggie Dyer
The couple married at the then Ipswich Register Office in Elm Street on May 13, 1961. Mrs Dyer was expecting their oldest child, Terry. It was a very different time, she said. My father said it would never last, and my mother told everybody the baby was early, but really he was full term!
Mr Dyer worked in the print room at the Ipswich Star and East Anglian Daily Times for 20 years, until he took early retirement at 55 due to ill health, and also worked for the Gas Board and Volvo.
Brian and Maggie Dyer on their wedding day in Ipswich in 1961
- Credit: Brian and Maggie Dyer
The couple married at the then Ipswich Register Office in Elm Street on May 13, 1961. Mrs Dyer was expecting their oldest child, Terry. It was a very different time, she said. My father said it would never last, and my mother told everybody the baby was early, but really he was full term!
Mr Dyer worked in the print room at the Ipswich Star and East Anglian Daily Times for 20 years, until he took early retirement at 55 due to ill health, and also worked for the Gas Board and Volvo.
May 6, 2021
UK-based Cromwell Polythene is helping to collect 1.5 million tonnes of recyclables a year after securing 30 local authority contract wins.
In addition to supplying sacks, bags and liners for the collection of dry recyclables, Cromwell also provides products for 300,000 tonnes of food waste for composting and anaerobic digestion, and 2m tonnes of general waste for treatment via energy from waste, or landfill.
Cromwell’s portfolio includes the LowCO²t range and the company’s compostable sacks, which are made from Ecopond biodegradable plastics, using starch and lactide-based derivatives of plant sources. They are said to be fully compliant with the European composting standard (EN13432), which requires more than 90 per cent of the plastics mass to convert into biomass, carbon dioxide, and water, with no harmful residue.
“They didn’t go with a suit,” she tells me of her appointment to run the UK’s fourth largest local newspaper group.
The deal was an alternative to liquidation. Two of Archant’s holding companies were forced into administration as a result.
One of four children, Willis grew up in Suffolk reading local paper the East Anglian Daily Times, a flagship Archant daily. “My dream was to work in newspapers and local press,” she says. “I’d love to have been a journalist [but] I can’t write for toffee.”
Instead, Willis turned to “the next best thing” and joined the commercial side of the news business, taking a job as a sales executive at the Financial Times in 1998, which meant she could “do something that can enable newspapers to be successful”.