Farewell – Obituaries

Posted: January 13th, 2019

Former Sunday Mail picture editor RONNIE ANDERSON, who died last week aged 70 (w/b Jan 7 2018), was a talented and prolific photographer who thrived in …

Posted: December 30th, 2018

DAVID SHARP, former assistant news editor on the Daily Record, has died, aged 85. He was a newspaper man almost born and …

Posted: November 28th, 2018

By Luke Cornelius: British illustrator John Allard, an artist on the classic comic strip “Garth” and former Cartoon Strips Editor at the …

Posted: November 20th, 2018

News of the death of former Daily Mirror photogapher GEORGE PHILLIPS, from his son, ex-Daily Mirror reporter Martin Phillips.

“My father passed away …

Posted: November 20th, 2018

News has reached us that COLIN SIMPSON, former assistant editor on The Sporting Life, died on November 11 (2018) aged 87. He …

Posted: October 22nd, 2018

DEREK PRIGENT, a stalwart of the Daily Mirror news subbing team in the Sixties, died in Sussex on September 26 [2018] aged …

Posted: October 8th, 2018

News has reached us of the death on August 26 (2018) of former Mirror Group telecommunications technician RON BOCOCK, at the age …

Posted: October 2nd, 2018

ALAN LAW, former Daily Mirror and Daily Mail industrial reporter, has died, aged 85.

Alan, born in Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, was a …

Posted: August 19th, 2018

IAIN MAYHEW, former Daily Mirror news sub and later its travel editor, died on August 17, aged 70. Universally and affectionately known …

Posted: July 17th, 2018

Tributes have been paid to Ian Dow, left, who spent more than a quarter of a century as a reporter at the Daily …

Posted: May 21st, 2018

MIKE GAGIE, former Daily Mirror reporter, feature writer and for decades deputy Northern news editor and finally Northern news editor, died in …

Posted: May 12th, 2018

AMP committee member and long-term friend and colleague of many of us ARTHUR SAXBY died on Friday, May 11 [2018]. He was …

Posted: May 8th, 2018

Former defence correspondent of the Daily Mirror ELLIS PLAICE died on May 3, aged 84. More details when we have them.

(Photo: Mirrorpix)

Posted: May 2nd, 2018

HUGH CURRIE, with a reputation as “a legend at the Scottish Daily Record and Sunday Mail and a giant in Scottish newspapers” …

Posted: April 27th, 2018

AUDREY MARLOW, Daily Mirror newsdesk secretary for a quarter of a century, died on Friday, April 20 (2018), aged 88.

She joined the …

Posted: April 18th, 2018

BILL KENNEDY – Cremation and wake. The funeral service and wake to celebrate the life of our friend and colleague …

Posted: April 18th, 2018

Former Daily Mirror editor and chairman of Mirror Group Newspapers TONY MILES died in Highgate Nursing Home this morning (April 14, 2018). …

Posted: March 29th, 2018

Mirrorman Ernie Burrington died on Friday, March 23, aged 91. He is pictured here with his wife Nancy

By ROY GREENSLADE, The Guardian

My …

Posted: February 28th, 2018

NORMAN WILLIS, who retired in 1998 after a long career in the group’s advertisement sector, principally on The Sporting Life, died on …

Posted: February 22nd, 2018

PATSY JUSTICE, who will be remembered by many from her time as secretary to showbiz writer Don Short, died on February 7 …