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Martin Wainwright MBE is a British journalist and author. He left The Guardian after 37 years at the end of March 2013.He was born in Leeds and educated at Shrewsbury School and Oxford University. His father Richard Wainwright was the Liberal MP for Colne Valley (1966–70 February 1974-87) after a career in accountancy.Wainwright was The Guardian’s Northern Editor. for seventeen years until the end of 2012 when he was succeeded by Helen Pidd.