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4 March – The national tabloid newspaper Today launches from Wapping. It pioneers the use of computer photo typesetting and full-colour offset printing at a time when British national newspapers are still using Linotype machines and letterpress. 5 March – The High Court disqualifies and fines 81 Labour councillors for failing to set a rate.
The Sun is a British tabloid newspaper, published by the News Group Newspapers division of News UK, itself a wholly owned subsidiary of Lachlan Murdoch 's News Corp. [9] [10] It was founded as a broadsheet in 1964 as a successor to the Daily Herald, and became a tabloid in 1969 after it was purchased by its current owner. [11]
t. e. The Daily Mail is a British daily middle-market tabloid newspaper published in London. It was founded in 1896. As of 2020, it was the highest paid circulation newspaper in the UK. [5] Its sister paper The Mail on Sunday was launched in 1982, a Scottish edition was launched in 1947, and an Irish edition in 2006.
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13 March – 1962 Blackpool North by-election: the Blackpool North seat is retained by the Conservative Party. This is on a Tuesday; it is the last parliamentary by-election in England to be held on a day other than Thursday. 14 March. 1962 Middlesbrough East by-election: the Middlesbrough East seat is retained by Labour.
22 October – Leonora Knatchbull, the five-year-old daughter of Norton Knatchbull, 8th Baron Brabourne and his wife Penelope, dies after a one-year battle with kidney cancer. She was also a great-grandchild of Lord Louis Mountbatten, who was murdered by the IRA in 1979. She is buried at Romsey Abbey on 26 October.
A minimum wage is introduced throughout the UK – set at £3.60 an hour for workers over 21, and £3 for workers under 21. Anthony Sawoniuk, 78, becomes the first person convicted of Second World War crimes in a British court when he is sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of 18 Jews in his native Belarus. He has lived in Britain ...
February. 3 February – Stamps commemorating the late Diana, Princess of Wales, go on sale in the UK. 7–22 February – Great Britain and Northern Ireland compete at the Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan, and win one bronze medal. 8 February – Former Conservative Cabinet Minister Enoch Powell dies in hospital in London aged 85.
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