Ivor Lewis obituary

My husband, Ivor Lewis, who has died aged 91, was a journalist who helped to lead regional newspapers into the era of new technology.

He was born in Newport, south Wales, one of five children of Herbert Lewis, an accountant and commercial traveller in the Welsh valleys, and his wife, Edith (nee Cox), who had worked in a department store until her marriage. Ivor attended Newport high school for boys and, after serving in the army for four years during the second world war, read history at Oriel College, Oxford.