The first episode was aired on 9 December 1960 and was not initially a critical success ; Daily Mirror columnist Ken Iriwin claimed the series would only last three weeks.

After the first episode in 1960, the Daily Mirror printed: " The programme is doomed from the outset ... For there is little reality in this new serial, which apparently, we have to suffer twice a week.

Some newspapers ran headlines such as " Coronation Street shuts out blacks " ( The Times ) and "' Put colour in t ' Street " ( Daily Mirror ).

One of his most memorable exchanges on HIGNFY occurred when he scathingly joked to fellow guest Piers Morgan that the Daily Mirror was now, thanks to Morgan ( then its editor ), almost as good as The Sun.

The tape of this conversation was leaked to the Daily Mirror and widely reported, embarrassing Major.

The incident was reported in Daily Mirror as " Gorilla in the Roses ".

claims that the media tycoon Robert Maxwell had put pressure on Central's board, of which he had become a director, to withdraw Questions of Leadership at the time he was buying the Daily Mirror newspaper and needed the co-operation of union leaders, especially Frank Chapple of the electricians.

In 1933 the Daily Mirror showed a picture with the following caption ' This queerly-shaped tree-trunk, washed ashore at Foyers may, it is thought, be responsible for the reported appearance of a " Monster "'.

Foot was speaking in defence of the Daily Mirror, which had criticised the conduct of the war by the Churchill Government.

The Daily Mirror was the only major newspaper to back Foot and Labour at the 1983 general election, urging its readers to vote Labour and " Stop the waste of our nation, for your job your children and your future " in response to the mass unemployment that had resulted from Conservative prime minister Margaret Thatcher's monetarist economic policies to reduce inflation.

However, the traditional Labour supporting Daily Mirror had backed Kinnock in the 1987 election and again in 1992.

For example, in 1957 American pianist Liberace, who publicly denied being gay or bisexual, successfully sued the Daily Mirror for merely insinuating that he was gay.

Examples of British red top newspapers include The Sun, the Daily Star, the Daily Mirror and the Daily Sport.

* Daily Mirror

In the United States daily tabloids date back to the founding of the New York Daily News in 1919, followed by the New York Daily Mirror and the New York Evening Graphic in the 1920s.

The UK's Daily Mirror reported on 17 March 2009 that " sources " had confirmed that the band was to reform in 2009 for a 21-date tour.

His story, sold to the Daily Mirror, boasted of a close relationship with Margaret and, while it was debatable, the publicity that followed further damaged her reputation.

The internals for the police station were filmed in the old Daily Mirror offices in central Manchester, now The Printworks retail complex.

On 21 October 2006, it was reported in The Daily Mirror that Jones had been diagnosed with bowel cancer.

The Daily Mirror ran the headline " It's Sir Del and Sir Tel " ( popular BBC Radio 2 DJ Terry Wogan was also knighted on the same day ).

Not to be outdone, the rival Daily Mirror sponsored in 1970 the London-Mexico World Cup Rally, linking the stadia of two successive football World Cups, on a route that crossed Europe to Bulgaria and back before shipping out from Lisbon to Rio de Janeiro, after looping around South America, and a run through some of the most frightening sections of Peru's road race, the Camino de los Incas, they wrap it up being shipped to Panama and a final run up Central America.

The British historian Victor Rothwell wrote that the newspapers that Ribbentrop used to provide his press summaries for Hitler, such as the Daily Express and the Daily Mail, were out of touch not only with British public opinion, but also with British government policy in regard to Poland.

2, Victor Mancha states in an exchange about Spider-Man that " The only people who think he's a criminal are Fox News and the Daily Bugle.

Also near the conference center is the Golf Courses of Lawsonia, built on the former estate of Victor F. Lawson, the owner and publisher of the Chicago Daily News.

", Alan is dismayed when Victor Crosby, a man even further to the right than he, wins a by-election in Accrington and quickly becomes the new darling of the party, placed on the fast track for the Cabinet by Sir Greville and awarded Alan's weekly column in the Daily Express.

Within a few years its dramatically lower cost ( only just over half the cost of the Heron or Gull ) and massive promotion by the Daily Mirror ( under the guidance of a dedicated team headed by Victor Shaw ) transformed the boat into the most popular two man dinghy in terms of sales per annum worldwide.

Bernard Zakheim's " Library " depicts fellow artist John Langley Howard crumpling a newspaper in his left hand as he reaches for a shelved copy of Karl Marx's Das Kapital with his right, and Stackpole is painted reading a newspaper headline announcing the destruction of Rivera's mural ; Victor Arnautoff's " City Life " includes The New Masses and The Daily Worker periodicals in the scene's news stand rack ; John Langley Howard's mural depicts an ethnically diverse Labor March as well as showing a destitute family panning for gold while a rich family observes ; and Stackpole's Industries of California was composed along the same lines as an early study of the destroyed Man at the Crossroads.

In the late 1930s, Vansittart together with Reginald Leeper, the Foreign Office's Press Secretary often leaked information to a private newspaper The Whitehall Letter edited by Victor Gordon Lennox, the Daily Telegraphs diplomatic editor opposed to appeasement This brought him into conflict with the political leadership at the time and he was removed as Permanent Under-Secretary in 1938.

Obituaries in The Times of 27 February 1986 and The Daily Telegraph of 28 February 1986, an article, " Victor Canning: popular and now very collectable author of thrillers, comic novels, and mysteries.

* Victor F. Lawson, editor and publisher of the Chicago Daily News

Victor F. Lawson bought the Chicago Daily News in 1876 and became its business manager.

During the longtime tenure of Victor F. Lawson, the Chicago Daily News pioneered certain areas of reporting, opening one of the first foreign bureaus among U. S. newspapers in 1898 and starting one of the first columns devoted to radio in 1922.

Created and executive produced by host Victor Lucas, and his Vancouver, British Columbia production company Greedy Productions Ltd, EP Daily has been a staple on airwaves since its debut in September 1997.

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Wealthy local businessman Victor McCormick, who had a personal dislike for the Press-Gazette, became a major investor in the Daily News and remained an active voice in its operations until a 1976 heart attack forced him to end his financial support.

While Superman withstood the disintegrating ray in order to save the Daily Planet, Lois Lane breaks free and manages to subdue Prankster and Victor just as Superman arrives.

Victor tells Prankster that Lois might have some file on the computer at the Daily Planet.

Prankster and Victor then infiltrate the Daily Planet and freeze everyone in place so that Frankster can hack Lois Lane's computer in order to find info on Superman.

On March 30, 2008, the New York Daily News announced via their website that Jendrick was signed on to write the official BALCO book with infamous lab founder Victor Conte.

In 2006 McKenna successfully sued the Daily Mirror for libel over claims, made by journalist Victor Lewis-Smith, that he had obtained a " bogus degree " merely for money to deliberately defraud the public ( the degree was from LaSalle University ).

On 28 July 2006, hypnotist Paul McKenna successfully sued the Daily Mirror for libel over articles written by Lewis-Smith from 1997 alleging that Mr McKenna was in the possession of a false PhD, having obtained the qualification from a non-accredited institution in the United States, whose principal had since been imprisoned for making misleading claims about the status of degrees he handed out to candidates.