Farewell – Obituaries

Posted: October 26th, 2021

IAN SHARP, a former Sunday Mail investigative reporter, lost a long battle with Parkinson’s disease on September 26 [2021] when he died …

Posted: October 2nd, 2021

DANNY GARRETT, who was The Sporting Life’s boxing correspondent (with Malcolm Hanover), died on September 29 [2021] aged 87. Danny had been …

Posted: October 2nd, 2021

GREG MISKIW, former Sunday Mirror journalist, has died, aged 71.

His daughter has given a full tribute to him in the Press Gazette.

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Posted: October 2nd, 2021

JOHN SHEARD, a former Sunday Mirror journalist, and long-running columnist on the Craven Herald, died on September 5 [2021], aged 82.

John spent …

Posted: September 13th, 2021

LEN GOULD, former editor of The People, died on September 12 [2021] at his home in Spain, following a lengthy cancer battle. …

Posted: September 9th, 2021

We are indebted to Sandra White for sharing her eulogy, which has been added to tributes at the foot of this post.

Our …

Posted: September 7th, 2021

DONALD ZEC, one of the greatest Daily Mirror journalists – and a long-time member of the AMP –  has died aged 102 …

Posted: August 25th, 2021

ALAN FREEMAN’S funeral is on Monday, September 20 at 10.15am at Beckenham Crematorium, Elmers End Road, Beckenham BR3 4TD. The …

Posted: August 10th, 2021

Mirror Library stalwart DEREK BLAND died on August 4 [2021], aged 89. He is remembered with great affection and a smile by …

Posted: July 31st, 2021

FORMER Mirror man DAVID WRIGHT died from cancer on July 31 [2021] in Florida. He was 82.

David joined the Daily Mirror from …

Posted: July 9th, 2021

FIDELMA COOK, a former deputy news editor at the Daily Record, died on June 26 [2021], aged 71, in hospital at Mossaic, …

Posted: June 14th, 2021

ALLAN WHITE spent his entire career on The Sporting Life, principally in the paper’s engine room, the Form Room. The Form Room …

Posted: June 3rd, 2021

MGN media expert RON CARPENTER died on April 19 [2021]. Ron was a long-term Mirror Group man, with a short break of …

Posted: May 6th, 2021

Former Sunday People journalist and, later, evangelical broadcaster DAN WOODING died on March 18, 2020, aged 81, from cancer. Dan worked on …

Posted: April 22nd, 2021

PETER COOK, intrepid Sunday Mirror photographer and the NUJ FoC for many years, died yesterday, April 21 [2021]. He had been suffering …

Posted: March 5th, 2021

JEFFREY BALLARD, who worked as an editorial clerk on The Sporting Life for more than 20 years, died on August 29 [2020]. …

Posted: March 1st, 2021

WITH apologies for the lateness of this post, we regret to record the death, on October 17 [2020], of MEL …

Posted: January 19th, 2021

WALTER STANLEY, former Mirror Group chief electrical engineer, died on January 16 [2021], aged 90. This tribute is from his family.

Walter joined …

Posted: January 16th, 2021

CHARLES DUNCAN, a remarkably popular senior editorial executive on the Daily Record and Sunday Mail for more than 30 years, has died, …

Posted: January 13th, 2021

BRIDGET ROWE, former editor of the TV Times, Sunday Mirror and Sunday People, and later editor-in-chief of the Sunday People and Sunday …