News from the street of shame 

TODAY'S PAPERS

CLICK HERE FOR THE LATEST FRONT PAGES

_____________________________________________________________

HOLD THE FRONT PAGE

Stories you may have missed

enhanced-buzz-12782-1362526297-5.jpg

More here

_____________

WEEKLY SERIES 

NEW One in the Eye No 44

History of the Daily and Sunday Express as told through the columns of Private Eye

4th March 1977

Grovel: The eccentric Col. Bruce Page, lured to the Daily Getsmuchworse by ageing trendy Sir Charles Mostyn-Wintour, tells me he is now the highest-paid journalist in Fleet Street.
The Colonel, who recently accused Dame Harold Evans of manslaughter, says he is paid £15,000 a year for only six months’ work.

18th March 1977

Grovel: The Daily Express/Daily Mail sniping is even nastier than has been reported.
The Express sister paper, under the direction of canny melodeon-playing Scot John Junor, has been digging into the mystery of the Mail’s missing managing director John Golding, who was in charge of collecting money for the Vietnam orphans. 
Junor’s hacks have interviewed several people – and upset Mail executives by telephoning them at home.
This is a disgraceful thing to do. If the day has come when a man in charge of orphans’ money can’t disappear off the face of the earth then we have come to a pretty pass.

*****
With ‘Biggles’ once again in hospital suffering from a second stroke, affairs at the Black Lubyanka are getting increasingly out of hand with the Mad Piranha lashing out in an increasingly desperate fashion.
Last week saw the departure of Assistant Editor Robin Esser, as well as Brian Nicholson, Piranha’s joint Managing Director. Nicholson, it is believed, could no longer endure the behaviour of his colleague.
Meanwhile the ludicrous affair of the cartoonist Cummings – sacked on Monday and reinstated on Friday – has not enhanced the prestige either of Piranha or the equally disastrous Sir Charles Mostyn Wintour, who is intent on ‘trendifying’ the Getsworse.
It now seems clear that the relaunching of the paper has been a disaster and the circulation has sunk back nearly to what it was before the tabloid came into existence.
Piranha will put the blame for this on everyone but himself, and more heads are expected to roll.

NEXT WEEK: Robin Esser is offered the deputy editorship of the Daily Express and a dispute breaks out over the IPC Press Photographer of the Year award to David Cairns

MORE FROM 1977

ONE IN THE EYE 1976

ONE IN THE EYE 1975

ONE IN THE EYE 1974

ONE IN THE EYE 1973

ONE IN THE EYE 1972

ONE IN THE EYE 1966-1971

SPOOF FRONT PAGE FROM 1965

______________

AND SO TO BEDS

expressprint

This charming snap was taken from an aeroplane by Joy Desmond as she was wafted into Luton Airport. But what does it show? Find out here

__________

LOOKALIKE (UKIP EDITION)

farage

                   Meerkat                         Nigel Farage

More here

__________

MAROONED IN THE PUB

IMG 1122

Oh dear, tell that to the wife:

Lord Drone's blog

_______________

What on earth is going on here?

pix 1

A memorial service? Surely some mistake

Learn the ghastly truth here

_____________________________

     Can you name these comps?

comps crop

We can identify a few. Can you do better? 

There's a bigger picture here

_________________

If the cap doesn't fit...

nicklloyd

Sometimes editors have to do the most undignified things, as Sir Nicholas Lloyd found in 1995 when Sky TV invaded the Express offices in Blackfriars for a charity Telethon which was broadcast live to the masses. The picture came to light during a gathering of the World's Greatest Lunch Club at which the guest was the man with the longest career in Fleet Street – 57 years and still counting. Read about it here.

_____________________

EXCLUSIVE PICTURE – LORD DRONE MEETS THE QUEEN MOTHER

__________________________

Funny old whirled

Vietwhirls

Goodbye Vienna: Spotted in Hunstanton by Stephen Wood

________________________________________________

____________

Lookalike

IMG 0210

                 Motty                             Monkey

____________


How an Express reporter left Britain's Cold
War secret on the floor of the Old Bell

old bell

Full fascinating details

_________________

It's pasta joke at Spaghetti House

IMG 0976

Tony Boullemier, Alastair McIntyre and Bob Kilbey enjoy a glass of lunch at the Spaghetti House restaurant in Holborn on 29th November, 2012

More grainy pics

_____________

Who Was Who on the Express in 1969

expresslist1969

More details here

_______________

Buccaneering spirit that made the Daily Express great

Read all about it here

__________

NEW SHOCK: Up the wooden Hill

There are some things that you just can't make up. Former Daily Express editor Peter Hill has designed some nightshirts which he is now selling on the internet. Don't have nightie-mares!

Full details and tasteful picture

___________________

HISTORY OF THE DAILY
EXPRESS DRONES CLUB

THE DUCK CALL AND FIRE EXTINGUISHERS AT MIDNIGHT

________________

______________

 Lord Drone's weather page

___________


© 2008-2013 Alastair McIntyre, who edits this site under the aegis of Lord Drone