CHRISTINE GARBUTT
2/04/2008
With sadness we report the death of one of our Council members (trustees), Christine Garbutt. She joined the Council in 1993 and was elected a Vice President in 2004.
From school she started on a local paper in Hayes, Middlesex, but at the age of 18 went to work for the Daily Mirror, an association that was to last for many years.
After a spell in Canada in the early 1960s she returned to write features for the Mirror Group's weekly magazine, Reveille. In 1971 she left the staff to freelance for Reveille and the Daily Mirror where she became one of the first women to write a column on the sports pages and later was to be the right-hand woman to the Mirror's aunt, Marje Proops.
In the 1990s she spent months working undercover in a sex chatlines company and, after she exposed it, her life was threatened.
She left the Daily Mirror in 1997 but continued her long association with Fleet Street by writing articles and through her membership of the Press Golfing Society as well as her longstanding work as a trustee.