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Mike Beardall began his career as a journalist on the Banbury Guardian in Oxfordshire, and worked on other Midland newspapers as a reporter, feature writer and chief sub-editor. Moving to Surrey in the Seventies he became group chief sub-editor and later production editor of Surrey and South London Newspapers Ltd. In the Eighties he joined the Daily Mail group as a sub-editor on Weekend Magazine, later becoming chief sub-editor. In 1982 he worked on the launch of the Mail on Sunday, and also did sub-editing on the Sunday Express, Daily Express and the Daily Star. In 1987 he became editor of the Middlesex Chronicle and deputy group editor of Surrey and West London Newspapers Ltd at Kingston-upon-Thames, including the Surrey Comet and Thameside Magazine.