My former colleague Shirley Meehan, who has died aged 87, was a member of the Guardian’s editorial team in Manchester for almost 30 years.
She joined the paper in 1969 just as its 90 Manchester-based journalists were preparing to move from their original imposing home on Cross Street to a more utilitarian base down the road. She remained committed to the Deansgate office even as the Guardian’s operation in the north shrank rapidly from 1976 onwards, and retired in 1996.
