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June 20, 2006updated 22 Nov 2022 7:52pm

Former Oxford Mail editor Jim McClure has died

By Press Gazette

Jim McClure, former editor of the Oxford Mail and the Oxford Times, has died aged 66.

McClure, who was born in Johannesburg, joined the Oxford Mail in 1966 as a sub-editor. He retired as the paper's editor at the end of 2003 after a period of ill health and died from respiratory failure at Oxford's Radcliffe Infirmary on Saturday.

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