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The Daily Gazetteer was an English newspaper which was published from 30 June 1735 until 1746. [1] The paper was printed for T. Cooper, at the Globe in Pater-Noster Row , London by W. Arnall et al. The Gazetteer and New Daily Advertiser was printed by Charles Say until his death in 1775, after which it was printed by his widow, Mary Say . [ 2 ]
The original Marathon was the result of a lunch in late 1967, during a period of despondency in Britain caused by the devaluation of the British pound. [1] [2] Sir Max Aitken, proprietor of the Daily Express, and two of his editorial executives, Jocelyn Stevens and Tommy Sopwith, decided to create an event which their newspaper could sponsor, and which would serve to raise the country's spirits.
A promotion campaign ensued, and in 1933, the Herald became the world's best-selling daily newspaper, with certified net sales of 2 million. This accomplishment set off a war with more conservative London papers, such as the Daily Express. The Daily Herald strongly condemned the Nazi-Soviet Pact and the Soviet invasion of Finland. In an ...
The Mail – which was not linked to the London-based newspaper of the same name – was the first daily newspaper to be published in Glasgow when launched in 1847. The Glasgow-based Mail was among the first papers to offer readers in Scotland the latest political and business news direct from London. Publishers based outside the UK capital ...
The old more serious newspaper Berlingske Tidende shifted from broadsheet to tabloid format in 2006, while keeping the news profile intact. In Finland, the biggest newspaper and biggest daily subscription newspaper in the Nordic countries Helsingin Sanomat changed its size from broadsheet to tabloid on 8 January 2013.
London Daily News, The Independent, The Daily Telegraph: 1987 - Andy Capp [1] Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror: 1957 - AXA: The Sun: 1978 - 1986 Beat Your Neighbour: Knockout, [2] Whizzer and Chips: 1971 Beau Peep: Daily Star: 1978 - Beelzebub Jones: Daily Mirror: 1937 - 1945 Belinda: Daily Mirror: 1936 - 1959 Beryl the Peril [3] The Topper: 1953 ...
The Globe was a British newspaper that ran from 1803 to 1921. It was founded by Christopher Blackett, [1] [2] the coal mining entrepreneur from Wylam, Northumberland, who had commissioned the first commercially useful adhesion steam locomotives in the world. [3]
Headlines of the Evening Standard on the day of London bombing on 7 July 2005, at Waterloo station Unloading the Evening Standard at Chancery Lane Station, November 2014. The Evening Standard, formerly The Standard (1827–1904), is a long-established newspaper, since 2009, a local free newspaper in tabloid format, with a website on the Internet, published and distributed in London, England.