The Mansfield Chad is running a seven-week video series (eight episodes) on retired editor Jeremy Plews.

Plews, who joined the paper as a trainee, was editor for 36 years at the paper and stepped down last week. Below is the first instalment, the work of chief photographer Roger Grayson, sub-editor Peter Hemmett and digital editor Tom Pegg:

We’re reliably informed by Tom Pegg that Jeremy never took a day off sick in his 36 years…