It was certainly a reunion to remember - members of the Packet staff past and present some meeting up for the first time in decades to catch up on old times and meet a number of new and somewhat younger faces at the same time.

The reunion, held at the Falmouth Watersports Centre and organised by Mike Buckley currently system controller at the Packet saw more than 100 people turn up enjoy an old fashioned get-togther of chat.

There were three former editors, three former chief reporters, print managers, sales executives, production and administration staff and former managing director John Saxton who was in charge when the Packet was owned and published by J.H. Lake and later taken over by Express Western, then part of Beaverbrook Newspapers, publishers of the Daily Express.

Some of those attending and now in their 80s recalled the days of hot metal, well before newspapers became "clean" and computers became the norm, and when the company was based alongside the Penryn River at Ponsharden.

One wall of the Watersports Centre was adorned with old photographs of Packet staff and cuttings from old newspapers.