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May 6, 2020updated 30 Sep 2022 9:15am

Former Sunday Times Magazine assistant editor Bill Cater dies at 95

By Jill Rawlins

Former Sunday Times Magazine assistant editor and Sunday Times deputy managing editor William “Bill” Cater has died aged 95.

Cater’s career in journalism began when he was rejected by the forces during the war because of his poor eyesight and told to “go away and do something useful”.

He joined the South London Press as a reporter for ten years before breaking into Fleet Street on the News Chronicle as a holiday relief sub-editor.

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