150-year toast for The Post.Byline: By Gary Marks THE Mail's sister newspaper The Birmingham Post For the former Birmingham, Alabama newspaper, see . The Birmingham Post newspaper was originally published under the name Daily Post in Birmingham, England in 1857 by John Frederick Feeney. has raised a toast to celebrate its 150th birthday. On December 4, 1857, the first edition of The Post rolled off the presses and went on sale. Since then, millions of newspapers have been printed and thousands of journalists have walked through its doors - many of whom have gone on to become some of the industry's most respected. Last night the newspaper celebrated its birthday with dozens of staff from the past and present at the Radisson SAS (1) (SAS Institute Inc., Cary, NC, www.sas.com) A software company that specializes in data warehousing and decision support software based on the SAS System. Founded in 1976, SAS is one of the world's largest privately held software companies. See SAS System. hotel in the city centre. Staff at the event, organised by the Birmingham Press Club, included the newspaper's district reporter from 1967 to 1970, Central Tonight's Bob Warman Bob Warman is a British television presenter, born in Walsall, West Midlands. Between the ages of 11 and 18, Bob attended Wrekin College in Shropshire. When he left in the 1970s, he started working for Yorkshire Television. . CAPTION(S): CHEERS... Birmingham Post editor Marc Reeves, centre, with Keith Gascoigne, left, the paper's first Business Editor, and John Lamb, current chairman of the Press Club, at the celebration last night. |
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