Bridget Rowe (16 March 1950 – 12 January 2021) was a British newspaper editor.

Life and career

Rowe worked for a succession of magazines: ''19'', ''

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'', ''Club'', ''Look Now'' and ''Woman's World'', before becoming Assistant Editor of ''

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'', then editor of "Sunday", the ''

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'' magazine. In 1986, Rowe became editor of ''

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'', then left to become editor of '' TV Times''. Rowe edited the ''

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'' from 1991 to 1992, then moved to edit ''

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''. In 1993 ''The People'' published a photo of Sonia Sutcliffe taken by a freelance photographer that breached

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code of conduct on privacy. Her refusal to accept respsponsibility for the actions of the photographer was described by the PCC as "lamentable". In 1995, she became managing director of both newspapers, and in 1997 she returned to editing the ''Sunday Mirror'' for a year. After this she served as the Director of Communications for the National Magazine Company, and later was the content director of Yava until it closed in 2001.Inside Story: The ex-editors' files
, ''

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'', 9 May 2005 She was a panelist on the first series of ''

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'' in 1999. A friend"Libertas faces UK electoral hurdle over party name"
, Irish Times, Friday, January 23, 2009 of

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(UKIP) leader

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, Rowe registered as the leader of Libertas UK with the United Kingdom

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in December 2008, in order to prevent

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's political party

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from fielding candidates in the UK's European Parliament elections in 2009 under that name. Rowe worked as public relations chief for the businessman and UKIP donor Arron Banks. Rowe died from

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in Farnborough on 12 January 2021, at the age of 70, during the

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