Summary
THE protracted retirement of Murray Ritchie, Scottish political editor of The Herald until last Wednesday, has taken up much of the latter part of his career.
The final farewell, to cap 33 years under one masthead, came at a bash in - of all places - The Scotsman hotel in Edinburgh, packing out a room next to the Ritchie Suite. Labour MPs were conspicuous by the numbers in which they came to drink free wine and see Ritchie off journalism's premises. Their long-held suspicions about his political sympathies were boosted with his regret that he would not be around to report on the Scottish parliament achieving independence.See the full content of this document
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