 In June 1949 he was invalided back to the UK and banned from further service in the East.Between 1949 and 1965 Otway worked in the area of sales and management, starting by selling life insurance as a learning experience and culminating as General Manager for Kemsley Newspapers (later Thomson Newspapers) and then as Managing Director of the "Empire News", a Sunday paper with a circulation of 5.5 million.After the Thomson take-over Terence resigned over financing requirements of the papers.