A FORMER Derby Evening Telegraph reporter and sub-editor has died – but not before he helped write his own obituary.Max Hodnett, 80, was so keen on getting the facts right that he prepared potted histories of his life for each of the newspapers for which he worked.His wife, Joycelyn, said Max who worked at the Derby Telegraph between 1950 and 1952 and then again from 1955 until 1958, said: "He was incredibly pedantic, which was great for a journalist. He liked things done properly...
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