Farewell – Obituaries

Posted: March 7th, 2020

Former Daily Mirror reporter SYDNEY YOUNG died on March 6 [2020]. Syd had been in hospital for a few days with pneumonia …

Posted: March 7th, 2020

DAVID ROBERTSON, former Sunday Mail picture editor, and “our stalwart FoC at the worst of times during the Maxwell years”, died on …

Posted: February 24th, 2020

IAN METCALFE,  former Daily Record reporter, died on February 10 [2020] in Haddington Care Home, East Lothian. He was 76. …

Posted: February 20th, 2020

Remembering Alice Avery

We are sad to report that Alice Avery died on January 21 [2020]. She would have been 96 …

Posted: January 27th, 2020

MIKE BOWEN, former deputy sports editor of the Daily Mirror, died on New Year’s Day, aged 76, after a long battle with …

Posted: November 24th, 2019

Former Daily Mirror photographer CYRIL MAITLAND has died in Ashland, South Oregon. He had lived in the States for many years. He …

Posted: November 17th, 2019

Former Sporting Life stalwart and later Daily Mirror production man JOHN WATSON died on November 13 (2019). He had been suffering from …

Posted: October 28th, 2019

WE are sad to record the death of ROY MOBBS, who died on 11 June, 2019, writes CARO CLUSKEY. Roy was a …

Posted: October 20th, 2019

NORMAN COX, Sunday Mirror stalwart sub and former Daily Express features executive, has died at the age of 84. Norman, who was …

Posted: October 7th, 2019

With thanks to ANDREW GOLDEN:

COLIN WILLS, the Sunday Mirror’s enormously respected writer, bon viveur, raconteur, and all round good fellow, has departed …

Posted: September 24th, 2019

Sunday People reporter PETER BISHOP died on August 13, (2019). He was 89.

Following National Service in the RAF, he joined Brennard’s News …

Posted: August 14th, 2019

“One of the great Mirrormen”

BRIAN BASS, former sub-editor, associate night editor, production editor and features editor on the Daily Mirror, …

Posted: July 19th, 2019

TERRY HOUSTON, a former Daily Record reporter and then feature writer, died on July 15 [2019]. After the Record he was news …

Posted: July 19th, 2019

ALAN HUNTER, a former Daily Record district man in Fife, died on May 15 [2019], aged 75. His son Graeme, a freelance …

Posted: July 16th, 2019

JOHN McCRIRICK: 17 April 1940 – 5 July 2019

“LARGER than life” is a description that fitted JOHN McCRIRICK perfectly, writes Caro Cluskey.

Many …

Posted: April 22nd, 2019

Our old friend and brave colleague BRIAN CULLINAN died in Kingston upon Thames Hospital  on April 21 [2019].

His funeral is …

Posted: April 21st, 2019

DOREEN SPOONER, the first female staff photographer on Fleet Street, died on April 21 [2019] aged 91. Her remarkable career spanned five …

Posted: April 17th, 2019

RICHARD FRY – deputy circulation manager in the heyday of the Sunday Mirror for much of the 1970s – died on April …

Posted: April 1st, 2019

From Malcom Speed: JIM MORRISON, former deputy news editor and later features editor of the Daily Record, was found dead in his …

Posted: March 28th, 2019

JAMES ‘Jim’ BARCLAY, a former night picture editor on the Daily Record, died on March 24, (2019) aged 86.

Jim was a successful …