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- 24 June 1974 - 29 April 1981 (Creation)
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Individual letters and correspondence relating to the management of Gemini News Service under the ownership of the Guardian and Manchester Evening News, 1974-1981. These include a letter to Derek Ingram (Gemini editor) ,from Roger Rix, (Guardian Newspapers Limited company secretary and director of Gemini), concerning plans to move Gemini offices, salary increases, shareholding and delays in processing account invoices, 24 June 1974- 9 March 1976; correspondence between Derek Ingram, Roger Rix and Oswald Hickson (Collier & Co., solicitors), concerning legal proceedings relating to an article supplied to the Guardian by Gemini, December 1976 and a letter to Derek Ingram from Gerry Knight (Guardian Syndication) informing Ingram of the Guardian's decision to end its ownership of Gemini, 24 September 1981.
Also includes a list of Gemini's debtors, with notes, by Derek Ingram, 1 June 1976 and copy of the agenda and unsigned minutes of a meeting of the board of Gemini held on 29 April 1981, with a compliments slip from Ian Ashcroft (Guardian Newspapers Limited company secretary).
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- Gemini News Service (1967-2002); news agency (Subject)
- Ingram; Derek (1925-2018); founder and editor of Gemini News Service (Subject)
- Rix; Roger S; company secretary, GNL (Subject)
- Guardian News & Media Limited (1967-); newspaper publisher (Subject)
- Ashcroft; Ian S; chief executive of Regional News Division of GMG (Subject)
- Knight; Gerald; governor of Newsconcern International Foundation (Subject)