The Daily Express is a conservative, middle-market British tabloid newspaper. It is the flagship title of Express Newspapers and is currently owned by Richard Desmond. It has a circulation of just under a million. Express Newspapers publishes the Daily Express, Sunday Express, Daily Star and Daily Star Sunday. Daily Express - History. The Daily Express was founded in 1900 by Cyril Arthur Pearson, publisher of Pearson's Own and other titles. Pearson sol ...

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• Daily Express - History
• Daily Express - Desmond era
• Daily Express - Editors

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The Daily Express was founded in 1900 by Cyril Arthur Pearson, publisher of Pearson's Own and other titles. Pearson sold the title after losing his sight and it was bought in 1914 by the future Lord Beaverbrook. It was one of the first papers to carry gossip, sports, and women's features, and the first newspaper in Britain to have a crossword. It moved in 1931 to 133 Fleet Street, a specially-commissioned art deco building. Under Beaverbrook the newspaper achieved a phenomenally high circulation, setting new records for newspap ...

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Daily Express, Daily Express - History, Daily Express - Desmond era, Daily Express - Editors

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Chris Eubank (August 8, 1966 - ), is a boxing legend and a British celebrity. Chris Eubank - Eubank the boxer. Born in Dulwich, Christopher Livingstone Eubanks (he later deleted the 's' from his surname) spent his early years in Jamaica before returning to the streets of East London, he spent his early teens at care homes or sleeping rough before his boxing brother Peter let Chris work as an assistant in his two fights with Barry McGuigan. Chris then flew to New York to live with his father in 1982, he atte ...

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• Chris Eubank - Eubank the boxer
• Chris Eubank - Eubank the celebrity
• Chris Eubank - In court
• Chris Eubank - Bankruptcy
• Chris Eubank - Autobiography
• Chris Eubank - External link

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Yvonne Ridley (born 1959?, Stanley, County Durham) is a British journalist and politician. Ridley came to prominence in September 2001 when she was captured by the Taliban in Afghanistan whilst working for the Daily Express, and held hostage for 11 days. She said she was offered to read the Qur'an during her captivity, and later did, partly to find out why the Taliban treated women as they do. She found no justification in the Qur'an f ...

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• Yvonne Ridley - External link

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Broadsheet is a size and format for newspapers, and a descriptive term applied to papers which use that format rather than the smaller tabloid format. (A third, less common format is the Berliner.) Many broadsheets measure roughly 29½ by 23½ inches (74.9 cm × 59.7 cm) per spread, twice the size of a standard tabloid. Australian and New Zealand broadsheets always have a paper size of A1 per spread (84.1cm by 59.4cm). Historically, broadsheets were developed when in 1712 a tax was placed on Briti ...

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• Broadsheet - Connotations
• Broadsheet - UK broadsheets
• Broadsheet - Switch to smaller sizes
• Broadsheet - Notable broadsheets
• Broadsheet - Australia
• Broadsheet - Canada
• Broadsheet - Chile
• Broadsheet - India
• Broadsheet - New Zealand
• Broadsheet - Peru
• Broadsheet - Russia
• Broadsheet - United Kingdom
• Broadsheet - United States
• Broadsheet - Switzerland

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Traditionally newspapers could be split into 'quality', serious-minded newspapers (usually referred to as 'Broadsheets' due to their large size) and 'tabloid', less serious newspapers. However, due to considerations of convenience of reading, particularly in cafés and on trains etc., The Independent and The Times have both switched to a 'compact'-sized format, traditionally used b ...

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• List of newspapers in the United Kingdom - National newspapers
• List of newspapers in the United Kingdom - Serious papers
• List of newspapers in the United Kingdom - Middle-market papers
• List of newspapers in the United Kingdom - Tabloid papers
• List of newspapers in the United Kingdom - Scottish serious papers
• List of newspapers in the United Kingdom - Scottish tabloids
• List of newspapers in the United Kingdom - Planned newspapers
• List of newspapers in the United Kingdom - Specialist newspapers
• List of newspapers in the United Kingdom - Regional newspapers
• List of newspapers in the United Kingdom - England
• List of newspapers in the United Kingdom - Wales
• List of newspapers in the United Kingdom - Scotland
• List of newspapers in the United Kingdom - Northern Ireland
• List of newspapers in the United Kingdom - Local newspapers
• List of newspapers in the United Kingdom - England
• List of newspapers in the United Kingdom - Northern Ireland
• List of newspapers in the United Kingdom - Scotland
• List of newspapers in the United Kingdom - Wales
• List of newspapers in the United Kingdom - Restricted circulation newspapers
• List of newspapers in the United Kingdom - Corporate newspapers
• List of newspapers in the United Kingdom - University newspapers
• List of newspapers in the United Kingdom - Defunct newspapers

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The Daily Telegraph is a British broadsheet newspaper founded in 1855. Its sister paper, The Sunday Telegraph, was founded in 1961. In November 2005, the Telegraph was the highest selling British broadsheet, with a certified average daily circulation of 904,955. This compared with a circulation of 692,581 for The Times, 261,193 for The Independent, and 378,618 for The Guardian1. [Audit Bureau of Circulations Ltd.] According to a MORI survey conducted in 2004, 61% of Telegr ...

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• The Daily Telegraph - Editorial history
• The Daily Telegraph - Editors
• The Daily Telegraph - Founding history
• The Daily Telegraph - The Sunday Telegraph
• The Daily Telegraph - Editors
• The Daily Telegraph - Recent history
• The Daily Telegraph - Notable mistakes
• The Daily Telegraph - Notes

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David Gemmell (born August 1, 1948) is a Times bestseller fantasy author. He was born in West London in the summer of 1948. At the age of sixteen he was expelled from school for organizing a gambling syndicate. He then became a day laborer and a nightclub bouncer in Soho. He also worked as a freelance writer for the London Daily Mail, Daily Mirror, and Daily Express. He published his first novel, Legend, in 1984 which has remained in print. In 1986 he became a full-time writer and most recentl ...

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• David Gemmell - Drenai Series
• David Gemmell - Rigante Series
• David Gemmell - Sipstrassi Series
• David Gemmell - Greek Series
• David Gemmell - Hawk Queen Series
• David Gemmell - Troy Series
• David Gemmell - Individual Fantasy Titles
• David Gemmell - Non-fantasy
• David Gemmell - Omnibus Editions
• David Gemmell - Graphic Novels

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Anthony Burgess (February 25, 1917 - November 22, 1993) was an English novelist and critic. He was also active as a composer, librettist, poet, playwright, screenwriter, journalist, essayist, travel writer, broadcaster, translator and educationalist. Born John Burgess Wilson in Manchester, England, he lived and worked variously in Southeast Asia, the United States and Mediterranean Europe. His fiction includes the Malayan trilogy (The Long Day Wanes) on the dying days of Britain's empire in the East, the Enderby cycle of comic ...

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• Anthony Burgess - Life
• Anthony Burgess - Childhood
• Anthony Burgess - Youth and education
• Anthony Burgess - War service
• Anthony Burgess - Early teaching career
• Anthony Burgess - Malaya
• Anthony Burgess - Brunei
• Anthony Burgess - Repatriate years
• Anthony Burgess - European exile
• Anthony Burgess - Death
• Anthony Burgess - Achievement
• Anthony Burgess - Novels
• Anthony Burgess - Criticism
• Anthony Burgess - Linguistics
• Anthony Burgess - Journalism
• Anthony Burgess - Screenwriting
• Anthony Burgess - Symphonies
• Anthony Burgess - Opera and Musicals
• Anthony Burgess - Trivia
• Anthony Burgess - Work methods
• Anthony Burgess - Espionage
• Anthony Burgess - Food and drink
• Anthony Burgess - Smoking
• Anthony Burgess - Finances
• Anthony Burgess - Sex
• Anthony Burgess - Mischief
• Anthony Burgess - Pop-culture influence
• Anthony Burgess - Early triumphs
• Anthony Burgess - Polyglottal virtuosity
• Anthony Burgess - Health
• Anthony Burgess - Names and namesakes
• Anthony Burgess - Birthplace
• Anthony Burgess - Memorial services
• Anthony Burgess - Transport
• Anthony Burgess - Pets
• Anthony Burgess - General
• Anthony Burgess - The Burgess tourist trail
• Anthony Burgess - Works
• Anthony Burgess - Fiction
• Anthony Burgess - Non-fiction
• Anthony Burgess - Selected musical compositions
• Anthony Burgess - Prefaces etc.

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The Daily Mirror is a British tabloid daily newspaper. For a period during the 1990s it was renamed The Mirror, but reverted to its original name in 2002. The Daily Mirror - Early years. The Daily Mirror was launched on November 2, 1903 by Alfred Harmsworth (later Lord Northcliffe) as a newspaper for women, run by women. It was not a success, and in 1904 he decided to turn it into a pictorial newspaper, firing the women journalists and appointing Hamilton Fyfe as ed ...

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• The Daily Mirror - Early years
• The Daily Mirror - The Mirror transformed
• The Daily Mirror - Toppled by Murdoch
• The Daily Mirror - The Mirror today
• The Daily Mirror - The Sunday Mirror
• The Daily Mirror - Fake abuse photos

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The Daily Mail is a British tabloid newspaper, first published in 1896. Its sister paper, the Mail on Sunday, was launched in 1982. The editorial slant of both papers is towards social and political conservatism. The Daily Mail was Britain's first daily newspaper aimed at what is now considered the middle-market and the first to sell 1 million copies a day. Originally broadsheet, the Mail switched to the tabloid format in which it is published today on May 3, 1971, the 75th anniversary of its founding (on t ...

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• Daily Mail - History
• Daily Mail - Editorial stance
• Daily Mail - Criticism
• Daily Mail - Moral Issues
• Daily Mail - Immigration
• Daily Mail - Pseudoscience
• Daily Mail - Conservative appearance
• Daily Mail - Satire
• Daily Mail - Daily Mail writers
• Daily Mail - Current writers
• Daily Mail - Past writers
• Daily Mail - Mail on Sunday writers
• Daily Mail - Current writers
• Daily Mail - Past writers

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William Joyce (April 24, 1906 – January 3, 1946), known as Lord Haw-Haw was a fascist politician and Nazi propaganda broadcaster to the United Kingdom during World War II. A condemned war-time traitor, he was controversially executed for treason. William Joyce - His Early Life. He was born in New York, to Irish parents who had taken United States citizenship. A few years after his birth, the family returned to Galway, Ireland. He attended St. Ignatius College, Galway, from 1915 to 1921. Unusually f ...

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• William Joyce - His Early Life
• William Joyce - British Union of Fascists
• William Joyce - Lord Haw Haw
• William Joyce - Capture and Trial
• William Joyce - Controversy
• William Joyce - Execution
• William Joyce - Joyce's Family
• William Joyce - Trivia

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James Bond, also known as 007 (pronounced "double-oh seven"), is a fictional British spy introduced by writer Ian Fleming in 1953. Fleming wrote numerous novels and short stories based upon the character and, after his death in 1964, further literary adventures were written by Kingsley Amis (pseudonym "Robert Markham"), John Pearson, John Gardner, Raymond Benson, and Charlie Higson; in addition, Christopher Wood wrote two screenplay novelisations and other authors have also written ...

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• James Bond - Overview
• James Bond - The character
• James Bond - The franchise
• James Bond - Biography of James Bond
• James Bond - Novels
• James Bond - By Ian Fleming
• James Bond - Post-Fleming James Bond novels
• James Bond - Young Bond
• James Bond - The Moneypenny Diaries
• James Bond - Other Bond-related fiction
• James Bond - Films
• James Bond - Official
• James Bond - Unofficial
• James Bond - Other films pertaining to James Bond
• James Bond - Music
• James Bond - Video games
• James Bond - Comic strips and comic books
• James Bond - Bond characters
• James Bond - Vehicles & gadgets
• James Bond - Trivia

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No physical evidence for the Beast's existence has been discovered; evidence for its existence rests on eyewitness accounts of sightings. The lack of physical evidence has been seen by some as proof that the Beast is from another dimension and can enter and leave our plane of existence at will. Beast of Exmoor - First sightings. Sightings of the Beast of Exmoor were first reported in the 1970s, although the period of its notoriety began in 1983, when a South Molton farmer named Eric Ley claimed to have los ...

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Beast of Exmoor, Beast of Exmoor - Characteristics, Beast of Exmoor - Evidence, Beast of Exmoor - First sightings, Beast of Exmoor - Eyewitness testimony, Beast of Exmoor - Photographic evidence, Beast of Exmoor - Government involvement, Beast of Exmoor - Explanations, Beast of Exmoor - Misidentification, Beast of Exmoor - Escaped pets, Beast of Exmoor - Hybrids, Beast of Exmoor - Supernature, Beast of Exmoor - The Beast in popular culture, Beast of Exmoor - Books

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The "By The Way" column was originally a society news column, published from 1917 onwards, written by social correspondent Major John Arbuthnott who invented the name "Beachcomber". It was taken over by Wyndham-Lewis sometime in 1919 who reinvented it as an outlet for his wit and humour. It was then passed to Morton during 1924 though it is likely there was a period when they overlapped. Morton wrote the column until 1975; it was revived in the early 1990s and continues today, written by William Hartston. The column is unsigned except by "Be ...

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Beachcomber, Beachcomber - By The Way in print, Beachcomber - Other formats, Beachcomber - Bibliography, Beachcomber - Books featuring Wyndham-Lewis' work, Beachcomber - Books featuring Morton's work, Beachcomber - Other uses

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He was born in Maple, Ontario, Canada and at an early age his family moved to Newcastle, New Brunswick, the place he would always call home and where, at the age of 13, he published his first newspaper. Although he wrote the entrance examinations for Dalhousie University and registered at the Saint John Law School, he did not attend either institution. His only formal higher education came when he briefly attended the University of New Brunswick. Aitkin worked briefly as an office boy in the law office of Richard Bedford Bennett, in the Town of Chatham, New Brunswick. Bennett l ...

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Max Aitken 1st Baron Beaverbrook, Max Aitken 1st Baron Beaverbrook - Biography, Max Aitken 1st Baron Beaverbrook - Legacy, Max Aitken 1st Baron Beaverbrook - Succession, Max Aitken 1st Baron Beaverbrook - Bibliography, Max Aitken 1st Baron Beaverbrook - External link

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Billy Butlin was born in Cape Town, South Africa. His father, also called William Butler, was the son of a clergyman but his mother, Bertha Hill, was a member of a family of travelling showmen. Their marriage was considered something of a disgrace in Leonard Stanley, Gloucester, UK, where they lived, and they were encouraged to emigrate to South Africa. When the marriage failed, Billy’s mother returned to England with her children and ...

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Billy Butlin, Billy Butlin - Early Life, Billy Butlin - Early Adulthood, Billy Butlin - Fun Fairs, Billy Butlin - The First Holiday Camp, Billy Butlin - More camps and more ideas, Billy Butlin - Later Life

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Even before the blackout the UK press were anticipating a UK equivalent of the 2003 North America blackout, which occurred two weeks earlier (August 14) and affected about 100 times more people. For example, on August 15, The Daily Express had reported that the National Grid might not be able to cope with predicted power surges in the winter of 2004. On the day of the blackout London Mayor Ken Livingstone declared the situation a "catastrophic failure" and "the normal British disease of underinvestment and not keeping your plant up to ...

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2003 London blackout, 2003 London blackout - Immediate impact, 2003 London blackout - Media coverage, 2003 London blackout - Causes, 2003 London blackout - Effects, 2003 London blackout - Restoration of service

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The BNP claims to have been in radical ideological transition for a number of years, and that its past behavior, and statements of its leadership, may not accurately reflect what it stands for at the present time. Since current chairman Nick Griffin took over in 2000, he claims to have repudiated racism, instead espousing something he calls "ethno-nationalism". Griffin claims that his core ideology is "concern for the well-being of the English, Scottish, ...

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British National Party, British National Party - History and overview, British National Party - Policies, British National Party - Allegations of racism, British National Party - Allegations of neo-Nazism, British National Party - Criminal records and extreme or violent affiliation of some BNP organizers, British National Party - Electoral strategy, British National Party - Electoral performance, British National Party - Opposition to the BNP, British National Party - Affiliated parties, British National Party - Previous British National Parties

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Early in his life, Sheehan had been appointed correspondence secretary of the Kanturk Trade and Labour Council and begun his active involvement in labour and trade union affairs. In August 1894, in alliance with the Clonmel, County Tipperary solicitor J.J. O'Shee (who was Member of Parliament for West Waterford from 1895), he formed the Irish Land and Labour Association (ILLA) to agitate on behalf of agricultural labourers and small tenant farmers, setting forth Michael Davitt's achievements. The ILLA platfo ...

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D.D. Sheehan, D.D. Sheehan - Journalistic beginnings, D.D. Sheehan - Land and Labour leader, D.D. Sheehan - Member of Parliament, D.D. Sheehan - Agrarian Resurgence, D.D. Sheehan - Sheehan's cottages, D.D. Sheehan - Barrister-at-law, D.D. Sheehan - All-for-Ireland League, D.D. Sheehan - 1910 general election, D.D. Sheehan - Dominion Home Rule, D.D. Sheehan - Great War engagement, D.D. Sheehan - Front Service, D.D. Sheehan - Stepping down, D.D. Sheehan - Final stand for labour, D.D. Sheehan - The closing chapter, D.D. Sheehan - Personal background, D.D. Sheehan - Family, D.D. Sheehan - Sources and reading, D.D. Sheehan - External links

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