Ex Comms
@UKLabour
for
#GE2024
, Ex Head of News Wire at Reach Plc, previous exec Editor of The Daily Mirror + +consumer journalist + Cudlipp committee +Amersham
Thirty years ago this week, wearing new trousers from Fosters Menswear, I walked into my first newsroom. Work experience in a room filled with Benson & Hedges smoke gave me my first byline. Sadly The Wokingham Times is long gone but I can still smell those cigarettes
#journalism
“The referendum on Brexit was like asking your husband if he wanted a threesome for his 40th. He was supposed to say no but he didn’t. And now everyone’s really miserable.”
The first time Diego Maradona was pictured in The Daily Mirror + a wide eyed commentary of the then 18-year-old by football writer Frank McGhee - June 4th 1979:
‘This is a man who is so untrustworthy you would never tolerate him as a work colleague. You would never hire him as an employee. And you would refuse to work with him as your boss.’ writes
@OborneTweets
The person using this butter dish is doing so incorrectly right? It’s upside down and the butter should be on the flat bit of glass with the cow pattern and the other bit goes on top yeah?
#IMPORTANT
This is me + my Dad - he died 20 years ago today aged 51 because, despite symptoms, he wasn’t diagnosed. Bowel cancer diagnosis has improved enormously - in no small part because
@LynnFauldsWood
talked bottoms on TV and lobbied for change. Thank you Lynn
Terry Jones with Graham Chapman and Michael Palin signing books at WHSmith's Holborn Circus, December 1980. RIP. pic by the late great Mirror man Alisdair Macdonald
After almost 28 years tomorrow will be my last day at The Daily Mirror and Reach Plc.
I joined as a trainee journalist in September 1997 - the same month a website called was registered - so quite a lot has changed! 1/4
As we rightly commemorate
#VEDay
please remember the 'forgotten army' - among them my grandad who remained a prisoner of Japan for another 476 days.
#GurkhaRifles
I took this pic on May 19th 2020. It had been 'a busy period' as Sybil had died in a care home amid a Covid outbreak. We were unable to 'make the most of the lovely weather' but there'd have been a nice turnout for her (with drinks after) if it had been allowed. Yeah I'm angry.
22 years ago today I came to
@DailyMirror
for trainee journalist new starter welcome drinks. I remember being impressed that the office had a gym - I’ve never used it.
'Thank you Lynn with all my heart.'
Today we remember Lynn Faulds Wood who was a pioneer in raising awareness of bowel cancer. Her husband John Stapleton and son Nick pay tribute to Lynn alongside just some of the people whose lives were saved thanks to her tireless campaigning.
BY-ELECTION RESULT
Amersham Town Council, Amersham Town
Lib Dem: 401
Con: 356
Green: 65
Lab: 25
Liberal Democrat GAIN from Conservative
Congratulations to newly elected Cllr Elizabeth Shepherd!
An exceptional journalist and editor, Peter Willis was also warm and kind. Be it as Santa for the
@DailyMirror
kids Christmas party or overseeing a page 1 scoop he was brilliant. Seen here +
@Kevin_Maguire
+ Richard Wallace putting the 4am 2010 general election paper to bed. RIP
No it’s not the ‘worst thing about parenthood’, no it’s not ‘just dressing up’ and no it’s not ‘just mums who have to do the work’. I confess I’m rather proud of the porridge prop
#schoolrundad
#WorldBookDay
@ladybirdbooks
Two momentous departures from the
@DailyMirror
this afternoon. Production legend Trudi Roche and our brilliant editor Alison Phillips. It’s been a privilege to work with them both.
I'm sad to report that Adrian Shaw who was a Mirror reporter for 20+ years has passed away. I love this court sketch by ITN's Priscilla Coleman which shows Adrian at work on the press bench during the Ernest Saunders trial. RIP
These explanations of what happens when you die (or how you might be cared for leading up to death) by
@doctor_oxford
are moving and reassuring. A credit to everyone giving palliative care
This is my friend Sybil Downs who died yesterday aged 93. There’s an outbreak of Covid-19 at the care home where she lived (but no one knows if she had it). She proudly served in The Red Cross during WW2. Tonight I’m clapping for her and for those living and working in care homes
It’s a niche but if you like cats, politics and the history of the Daily Mirror and the Labour Party here’s a ‘tail’ about my new cat. She’s called Jennie Lee…
Some very sore heads this morning after last night’s mass Daily Mirror leaving do. Sad to see the pile of ‘front pages’ which are made for departing colleagues. Here’s Gary Jones giving the send off speech for Editor Alison Phillips:
Huge result for campaigning journalism here - my colleague
@PenmanMirror
has written 40 articles about puppy farming over the last two years and now we will see a law change
#LucysLaw
1. It took 18 months for my grandfather's family to find out if he was dead or alive after the fall of Singapore in 1942 - he sent this prisoner postcard (restricted to a few words) and it brings me to tears every time I see it because...
#VJDay75
Very few dry eyes on this packed Google Hangout as Ali Machray MBE has just been ‘banged out’ as
@LivEchonews
Editor-in-Chief. ‘Legend’ and ‘much loved’ are over used but he is certainly both. Enjoy the golf
@amachray
!
Huge thanks to the staff at
@EmergencyStoke
who looked after me today and found my f’ing kidney stone. You are brave and wondeful people. Special mention to the ex nurse I met who has returned to the front line to help the Covid fight and as such is away from his family. 👏
I'm devastated to hear my friend Lynn Faulds Wood has died. It's no exaggeration to say she saved 1000s by telling her story of beating bowel cancer. She went on TV to talk bottoms and poo and for that she was my hero. She would want you to read this
Mr
@PenmanJourno
’s last day at
@DailyMirror
today. An exceptional journalist who has championed the readers for a mere 29 years. I was lucky enough to work directly with him for seven. It was always tough being the younger, better looking, one..
Proud of my colleague
@PhilipCoburn1
- he was horribly injured in Afghanistan but continues to do great work - here photographing a little boy who lost his leg to a land mine in Yemen
I’d like to reassure the many
#HarryStyles
fans getting in touch that I will indeed at least listen this magnum opus and consider the view that it is a ‘timeless classic’
The Grenwood Brothers - Harry Greenwood (left) was awarded the Victoria Cross for action 100 years ago today. Seen here with Arthur, David (my Gt grandfather) and John. All saw action, were wouned but survived.
#ww1centenary
#vc
Calling all student journalists (or recent graduates). Win £1k in The Hugh Cudlipp student journalism award. Deadline is Feb 14th. Please RT.
#journalism
@londonpressclub
As nation prepares to honour our incredible NHS staff and care workers this weekend, we remember their sacrifice... Our lost heroes
@DailyMirror
#TomorrowsPapersToday
The faces in this pic from the Coventry Telegraph show that while there was joy on VE day there was also great solemnity - 4 services were planned for inside the bombed out cathedral that day but it wasn't enough so they kept going until midnight
#VEDay75
My colleague
@JenWilliamsMEN
’s dispatch from Manchester today - the North West’s hospitals are going to be the story in the next few weeks. Real fear about what is to come:
Photographer Phil Coburn was in an armoured personnel carrier in Afghanistan when it was hit by a Taliban bomb. He lost the lower part of both legs. Needless to say his adapted car is very important… so pls RT:
Long shot I know but my car has been stolen from outside my house in London N10 between about 4pm and 11:30 tonight. Blue Lexus RX450 reg EJ67 PHA it is fitted with hand controls as I am a double amputee. Feeling sick Camera gear in the boot too.
@metpoliceuk
#stolencar
@LexusUK
I remember the day Canary Wharf Jubilee line extension opened. It revolutionised the journey to
@dailymirror
HQ.
@piersmorgan
was the boss, I was in a work marriage with
@PenmanMirror
and a flat in London was £100k. Oh and there was no
@Twitter
The Union Jack is at half mast this afternoon at Latimer, Buckinghamshire, in honour of Fritz Lustig - he was a refugee from Nazi Germany - please Google him
@greenwood100
@DailyMirror
You were the first friend I made at the Daily Mirror on my first Fleet Street job back in 2000. So lucky to have been part of your story ever since. A fine journalist but an even finer man. Excited for what comes next Xx
It’s always a huge privilege to get a seat at the Pride of Britain Awards … especially when My seat is next to
@vixkennedy
. The show is on ITV tonight at 8pm - there are some truly extraordinary people being honoured so please watch - yes I cried!
#PrideOfBritain
News of Boris Johnson’s hospitalisation came just as the Daily Mirror’s first edition splash on the Queen’s address had been sent to press - here’s how the page one was ‘changed up’
#TomorrowsPapersToday
After 60 years of teaching violin mum would never have thought remote lessons would work until 2020 forced her into it. She sees dozens of kids now via Zoom including my youngest (pic).
In Dec many took exams and all passed with flying colours. Well played mum!
@RoyalAcadMusic
🎻