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 ).

In the Daily Mirror, Victor Lewis-Smith wrote: " Apparently it doesn't matter that this is a first-class soap opera, superbly scripted and flawlessly performed by a seasoned repertory company.

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.

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 campus newspaper The Daily Texan ran a profile of her in the issue dated July 27, 1962, headlined " She Dares To Be Different ".

" The photo ran on the entire front page of the February 5, 1921 New York Daily News.

On 1 November 1972, ASIS was sensationally exposed by The Daily Telegraph which ran an exposé regarding recruitment of ASIS agents from Australian universities for espionage activities in Asia.

A fictional story of his called " Great Bugs of Onondaga " ran simultaneously in the Syracuse Daily Standard and the New York Tribune.

* Angus Og ( comic strip ), a comic strip which ran in the Daily Record

The Daily Mail ran a campaign against his bid and Liberal Democrats ' financial spokesperson Vince Cable suggested in the House of Commons that Branson's criminal conviction for tax evasion might be felt by some as a good enough reason not to trust him with public money

Although a report was filed by Eric Linden with the Daily Mail, who witnessed it, it never ran.

Between 1936 and 17 October 1959, the comic strip Belinda Blue-Eyes ( later shortened to Belinda ) ran in the United Kingdom in the Daily Mirror.

On July 9, 1947 the Roswell Daily Record ran a headline stating, " RAAF Captures Flying Saucer On Ranch in Roswell Region ".

In January 2012 the Daily Mail ran a story following the murder of Alisa Dmitrijeva a Latvian teenager and resident of Wisbech whose body was found on the Queen's Sandringham estate.

Daily Download ran for about two years before ending in late July 2006.

The masthead was changed to The Daily Illustrated Mirror, which ran from 26 January to 27 April 1904 ( issues 72 to 150 ), when it reverted to The Daily Mirror.

Two national UK newspapers ran features on love-shyness in 2009 ; The Sunday Times ran one under the headline, " Love Shyness: the ' Condition ' Crippling Men ", and the Daily Express ran one entitled " The Hopeless Romantic ".

Though they did not like each other at first, the two women proceeded to write Ready to Wear, a weekly style guide for The Daily Telegraph which ran successfully for seven years.

" Despite their initial differences, they collaborated in 1994 on Ready to Wear, a weekly style guide for The Daily Telegraph which ran for seven years.

The serialisation ran in the Daily Express from 5 December 1955 to 20 December 1955, although Kneale was forced to draw it to a rapid conclusion when the paper lost interest in the project and instructed him to complete the story as soon as possible.

The Daily Telegraph ran the picture of Cairns and Morosi the next day with the headline " Breakfast with Junie ".

fans were fatally injured at an FA Cup semi-final game, the Daily Star ran the front page headline Dead Fans Robbed By Drunk Thugs, alleging that Liverpool fans had stolen from fans injured or killed in the tragedy.

The Daily News and The Globe both noted that Act I ran longer than any previous Savoy Opera and needed pruning.

The Daily Telegraph ran the picture of Cairns and Morosi the next day with the headline " Breakfast with Junie ".