Farewell – Obituaries

Posted: October 29, 2026

ANDY BURNS, deputy production editor on The sporting Life, died on October 17 [2026]. He had been diagnosed with bowel cancer last …

Posted: October 29, 2026

Debbie Matthews let us know about the death of her Dad, CYRIL NEWTON, who died on September 27 [2026]. She said: I do …

Posted: October 29, 2026

IAN HARRISON, former deputy editor of the Sporting Life Weekender, died on September 25 [2026] aged 80.

He joined the Weekender around 1986/87, …

Posted: September 13, 2026

Felicity Green, OBE , trail-blazing women’s and fashion editor on the Daily Mirror, who later joined the board as publicity director, died …

Posted: September 1, 2026

KEN OLIVER, a distinguished figure in racing journalism, has died aged 86. His funeral will take place at Basildon Crematorium at …

Posted: August 24, 2026

ALBERT COOPER, renowned Daily Mirror sports photographer, died on August 15, 2026, aged 90. He is pictured with then Liverpool FC manager …

Posted: July 13, 2026

FORMER Daily Mirror City man and AMP committee member TONY PATEY died on July 10 [2026] following a spell in hospital.  RIP …

Posted: July 9, 2026

FORMER Sunday Mirror editor PAUL CONNEW died on July 3 [2026]. He was 79. Paul’s funeral will take place on August 13 …

Posted: July 8, 2026

NOEL YOUNG, editor of the Sunday Mail at its circulation peak of one million, died on June 27 [2026], aged 86. He …

Posted: July 6, 2026

DOUG NEWTON, the senior starting-price reporter for The Sporting Life from 1975 to 1998, died on May 29 [2026]. He was 93.

Doug, …

Posted: June 6, 2026

THE death has been announced of Dave King, long-serving Daily Record industrial and political correspondent. His funeral is …

Posted: April 7, 2026

KENNETH McPherson, former Daily Record chief sub-editor and production editor, died on March 6 [2026], after a short illness. He was 78. …

Posted: March 21, 2026

MONTY COURT, former editor of The Sporting Life, has died, aged 97

MONTY’s funeral will take place at noon …

Posted: March 21, 2026

Peter ‘PJ’ WILSON, former news editor of the Sunday Mirror, died on March 18 [2026], aged 78. His funeral is …

Posted: March 2, 2026

SUNDAY Mail picture editor DAVID McNEIL died on February 17 [2026], aged 80. A celebration of his life will follow …

Posted: February 12, 2026

FORMER executive editor of The Sporting Life, JEREMY CHAPMAN, died on February 11 [2026], aged 84. His wife Christa and …

Posted: February 12, 2026

Much loved sub-editor PETER LEWIS, for more than three decades the Mirror’s master confectioner of whimsy, died on January 21 [2026], after …

Posted: February 5, 2026

SUNDAY MAIL journalist, FRANK HURLEY, died on January 27, [2026], aged 81. A celebration of Frank’s life will follow …

Posted: January 22, 2026

JOHN ENOS, former editorial manager of the Scottish Daily Record, died, aged 91, on January 12 [2026]. A celebration of …

Posted: December 30, 2025

FORMER Fleet Street editor and legendary Mirror executive, BILL HAGERTY, died on Boxing Day [2025], aged 86. There will be …

Posted: December 18, 2025

KERRY GILL, a former senior reporter on the Daily Record, has died aged 78. His funeral took place on December 12, 2025.

He’s …

Posted: October 3, 2025

Former Sporting Life deputy chief-sub JOHN O’CARROLL died on September 25 [2025], at the age of 84. He had been …

Posted: September 30, 2025

BRIAN MCCARTNEY, a former deputy chief reporter of the Daily Record, and a legend in Scottish journalism, died in …

Posted: September 17, 2025

WE have heard only recently that ARCHIE NEWHOUSE, former greyhound editor of The Sporting Life, and later secretary of the …

Posted: September 7, 2025

FORMER Daily Mirror sports desk secretary CHRIS KELLY died on August 16 [2025], aged 79. Irrepressible and ever popular, Chris …

Posted: August 13, 2025

FORMER  boxing champion and Sunday People sports writer FRANKIE TAYLOR died in Heysham, Lancashire, on July 17 [2025]. He was …

Posted: August 7, 2025

NICK KENT, former Daily Mirror features chief sub-editor, and later managing director of Peter Owen Publishers, died on July 22, …

Posted: August 1, 2025

BARRIE WARD TURNER, former accounts clerk in the MGN bought ledger department, died on May 30 [2025], aged 86. 

BARRIE Turner …

Posted: June 23, 2025

ARTHUR EVERETT, former advertisement make-up manager at Mirror Group, died at home, surrounded by his family, on December 27 [2024]. …

Posted: May 6, 2025

FORMER Daily Mirror production journalist PETER SLOAN died on May 1 [2025], aged 73. His funeral is on May 28 …

Posted: April 24, 2025

WALLY McKENNA, formerly of the Mirror Group IT department, passed away unexpectedly on March 25 [2025]. His funeral was held at …

Posted: February 19, 2025

JOE HAINES, political journalist and press secretary to former Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson, and later political editor, leader writer, …

Posted: January 1, 2025

STEVE WHITE’S funeral will be held on Tuesday, January 21, at 11.30 am at Oldham Crematorium (Hollinwood Cemetery), Roman Rd, …

Posted: November 28, 2024

GEORGE EASTON, former deputy circulation director at the Daily Record & Sunday Mail, died suddenly on November 26 [2024], aged …

Posted: November 24, 2024

KEN IRWIN, TV and showbusiness editor of the Daily Mirror in the 1970s and 80s, died on November 21 [2024] …

Posted: November 1, 2024

 One of racing’s great characters, the much-loved and admired writer ALASTAIR DOWN, has died at the age of 68 [November …

Posted: November 1, 2024

BERYL BRYAN, former Sunday People newsdesk secretary, died on September 2, [2024] at Avon Cliff Care Home in Bournemouth, aged …

Posted: September 24, 2024

REVEL BARKER, former Sunday Mirror foreign editor and later Mirror Group managing editor, died on September 9 [2024], aged 79. He had …

Posted: September 1, 2024

RODGER BAILLIE, who had a glittering career as a sports writer at the Daily Record, Sunday Mirror and The Sun, died on …

Posted: August 29, 2024

DAILY Mirror features sub KEVIN MEMERY died during the weekend of August 24/25 [2024] at a care facility near his …

Posted: August 24, 2024

Mirror library stalwart DEREK DRURY died on July 20 [2024] in St Peter’s Hospital, Chertsey. He was 90. His son …

Posted: August 16, 2024

During more than 50 years in newspapers, ALLAN HERRON, who died on August 13 [2024] aged 95, was front and centre at …

Posted: August 11, 2024

MARK PRITCHETT, former MGN advertisement sales director, died on June 12 [2024], aged 70.

Obituary by former MGN colleague, ROGER EASTOE: …

Posted: August 7, 2024

FORMER Mirror Reels man ARNOLD “DENNIS” MOLEN died, aged 95, on July 13 [2024], following a fall at home

His …

Posted: July 23, 2024

DOUGLAS WATSON, a former engineer at the Daily Record, died on April 14 [2024], aged 79.

A trained marine engineer before joining the …

Posted: June 18, 2024

JONATHAN NEESOM, former point-to-point correspondent on The Sporting Life, died aged 72 on June 11 [2024]. In later life, he became a …

Posted: April 25, 2024

ALEX SCOTLAND, a former top Sunday Mail reporter, died aged 80 on April 9 [2024], after a short illness. His …

Posted: April 2, 2024

ROGER TODD, former Daily Mirror Home Affairs correspondent, died on March 22 [2024], aged 84, in a Surrey care home.

Roger …

Posted: March 27, 2024

ALAN SHILLUM – Al to one and all – former Daily Mirror news editor, pensions trustee and AMP committee member, …

Posted: March 26, 2024

JOHN HARVEY, a member of the SDR&SM editorial team, has died. He was 71. He passed away in the Royal Infirmary, Glasgow …

Posted: March 15, 2024

ALAN SMITH, former deputy sports editor on The People, and later, Man of the People Columnist, died on February 14, …

Posted: March 7, 2024

Tributes poured into the AMP following the death of the Association’s secretary, GERALD MOWBRAY, on February 10, 2024. He was …

Posted: March 2, 2024

IAN CALCOTT, a former Daily Record senior reporter and bureau chief in the paper’s Edinburgh office, died in Forth Valley Hospital, Stirlingshire …

Posted: February 13, 2024

RON GILES, an MGN specialist in colour printing, died on January 22 (2024), aged 89, following a stroke.

With thanks to Ray Weaver …

Posted: February 13, 2024

MIKE FOX, former industrial correspondent for the Daily Record, died on January 27 [2024], after a brief illness. He was …

Posted: February 8, 2024

LYNN WHITE, whose career took her from Mirror Magazine to the Sunday Mirror subs’ room and finally the Daily Mirror …

Posted: February 1, 2024

Alexander Cameron Browning, always known as Alistair, a former news sub-editor at the Daily Record and Sunday Mail, died at his home …

Posted: January 24, 2024

DAVID FARR, a former news editor and assistant editor of the Sunday People, died on January 24 [2024], after a fall at …

Posted: January 23, 2024

DAVID DONALDSON, a former night news editor at the Daily Record for more than 20 years, died on January 14 [2024]. He …

Posted: January 15, 2024

Former Daily Mirror compositor TERRY LINNANE died at his at home on December 19, [2023], aged 83. Terry’s son Chris has asked …

Posted: January 7, 2024

Former Daily Mirror investigative journalist and reporter JOHN PILGER, who broke stories on the Thalidomide scandal and the aftermath of Pol Pot’s …

Posted: January 6, 2024

PAUL FRY, a former sub-editor on The Sporting Life, died on December 22, 2023, aged only 67. Paul had been diagnosed with …

Posted: November 8, 2023

Former Daily Mirror news sub and AMP committee member CRAWFORD McAFEE has died, aged 80. His funeral will be held at Reading …

Posted: November 6, 2023

Former horserace form and page production man, ROBERT SYDNEY HEARN – Sid to all on The Sporting Life – was born on …

Posted: November 6, 2023

PHIL SMITH, former chief photographer on The Sporting Life, died on November 5 [2023] at his home in Bedford, following a period …

Posted: October 31, 2023

FORMER Sporting Life greyhound man BRIAN ‘BENNY’ CLEMENTS died peacefully at home on October 25 [2023]. He was 76. His family have …

Posted: October 26, 2023

KENELM JENOUR, former Daily Mirror Paris correspondent and chief show business correspondent, died on October 20 [2023]. He was 85, and had …

Posted: October 25, 2023

DONALD MCMASTER, a process worker at SDR&SM, died on August 18 [2023], at the grand age of 102. (Members may remember Donald …

Posted: September 24, 2023

JOHN O’HARA, a former Sporting Life and Weekender columnist who specialised in stable reports, and was expert at spotting future equine stars …

Posted: September 24, 2023

“PAMELA HAYNES passed away peacefully on August 29, 2023, aged 77, surrounded by her loved ones. A dearly loved wife …

Posted: September 4, 2023

BILL MOWATT, the Daily Record’s former Inverness-based reporter, died on August 8 [2023], aged 80. With colleagues, he covered part of the …

Posted: August 3, 2023

ANDREW GOLDEN, former Sunday Mirror reporter, FOC, NUJ convenor,  MGNPS trustee – and deputy chairman of the trustee board – …

Posted: July 30, 2023

IAIN FERGUSON, a senior executive at the Daily Record and news editor of the Sunday Mail, died on July 27 [2023], after …

Posted: July 27, 2023

FORMER Daily Record platemaker ALEXANDER FORRESTER died on June 24 [2023], aged 90.

His daughter Isabel said: “My Dad (known to …

Posted: July 17, 2023

FORMER Sporting Life copytaker ALAN “WALLY” WATKINS died on July 14 [2023], aged 76. Funeral details: 10am, Wednesday, August 9, …

Posted: July 10, 2023

Former MGN IT specialist NEIL FREEMAN died suddenly on May 29 [2023], aged 68. His wife Alexandra Calver sent us …

Posted: June 27, 2023

GLORIA “Glo” SHARPE, longtime secretary to several Daily Mirror senior executives, and partner of former Daily Mirror chief photographer Kent …

Posted: June 25, 2023

ALEX FAITH, former well-respected chief cashier at Scottish Daily Record & Sunday Mail Ltd, has died aged 83.

He joined the company as …

Posted: June 18, 2023

Former Sporting Life circulation rep TERRY PATTINSON died on April 14 [2023]. He was loyal and hard-working, and cared passionately about his …

Posted: June 6, 2023

Former electrician and Father of the Chapel at Mirror Group, THOMAS WILLIAM PARSONS, died on 26 April, 2022 (sic), at the age …

Posted: May 11, 2023

By ROY GREENSLADE  (Images: Mirrorpix) Foonote by Plain John Smith

DON SHORT, who has died at the age of 90, was the doyen …

Posted: April 4, 2023

ADVERTISING stalwart JOHN LANE died in Thailand on October 29, 2022. His colleague John French sent these words:

Farewell to a true gentleman

John …

Posted: March 16, 2023

BEST known for his long stint at The Sun, TOM PETRIE, who died on March 10 [2023], aged 84, also enjoyed success …

Posted: March 13, 2023

BILL TIDY, former Daily Mirror and Private Eye cartoonist, died, aged 89, on March 11, 2023.

Bill Tidy was awarded an MBE in …

Posted: March 12, 2023

WE have belatedly heard of the death, in September 2022, of LEO WHITE, popular and long-serving former Northern news editor of the …

Posted: March 12, 2023

NICKY GEORGE, former national distribution manager for the Daily Mirror, died on November 16 [2022] after a three-year battle with breast cancer. …

Posted: March 12, 2023

JOHN LEWIS, who worked in the Daily Mirror Readers department for more than 25 years, passed away peacefully on September …

Posted: January 26, 2023

FORMER Daily Record sales and publicity manager GEORGE GRAY died on January 4 [2023].

He was aged 90, and had been suffering from …

Posted: January 17, 2023

MARTIN GILFEATHER, former picture editor of the Daily Record, died on January 3 [2023], following a short illness. He was 84. Martin …

Posted: January 9, 2023

FORMER Sporting Life reporter JOHN STUBBS passed away peacefully in his sleep on Friday, January 6 [2023]. John had suffered ill health …

Posted: December 16, 2022

Former Mirror librarian MARTYN DOWD has died. He passed away on December 15, 2022, aged 76. We send sincere condolences to Martyn’s …

Posted: December 13, 2022

FORMER Daily Mirror telephoto expert JOHN YEATES died on September 15 [2022] aged 92. He’s pictured, seated, at the Mirror in an …

Posted: December 7, 2022

TRIBUTES have poured in for the Daily Mirror’s EUGENE DUFFY, who has died aged only 60. Those who knew him said he …

Posted: November 4, 2022

WE have belatedly learned that GEORGE THAW, former Daily Mirror literary editor, feature writer, Old Codger and author, died on June 7 …

Posted: September 5, 2022

CHARLES WILSON, a former editor of The Times, among other titles, died on August 31 [2022] at the age of 87.

Charles Wilson …

Posted: August 23, 2022

Multi-award winning Sunday People former chief reporter KEN GARDNER died on August 2 [2022]. He was 93. Ken Gardner’s funeral …

Posted: August 21, 2022

CHARLIE BEATON, the Daily Record’s three-time Press Awards-winning crime reporter, died in Inverclyde Royal Hospital, Greenock on August 11 [2022], aged 75. …

Posted: August 12, 2022

WALLY HARDY, whose 40-year career at Mirror Group from 1955-1994 was spent entirely in the Mirror Library, died on July 31 [2022]. …

Posted: July 19, 2022

MAURICE CARDEN, who worked at MGN for more than 25 years, principally in building services, died peacefully on June 25 [2022], aged …

Posted: July 9, 2022

FORMER Mirror librarian RON AUST died on July 1 [2022], aged 85. His colleague and fellow librarian TOM ASHMORE writes:

It was with …

Posted: June 24, 2022

We are grateful to Douglas Bence for letting us know that former Daily Mirror picture desk man and stone sub JEFF HOWLETT …

Posted: June 9, 2022

VETERAN People photographer DAVE GRAVES died on June 9 [2022], aged 82, following a stroke.

Following his funeral, his daughter-in-law Julie has asked …

Posted: June 9, 2022

RON JEPP, a popular and efficient operator in MGN’s house management network, died on May 13, [2022].

Ron started work as a clerk …

Posted: May 27, 2022

DAVID JACK, who has died aged 94, was a stalwart reporter who helped The People reach sales figures of more than five …

Posted: May 25, 2022

VERNON ROWE, a much respected and well-loved former Mirror chief sub, died on May 8 [2022].

Northerner Vernon was a linchpin of the …

Posted: April 7, 2022

DOYEN of the TV critics Charles “Charlie” Catchpole died on March 31 [2022], after a long illness. He was 76.

His funeral will …

Posted: March 26, 2022

Former Daily Mirror northern news editor BILL FREEMAN died on March 21 [2022]. He was 89. His funeral is at …

Posted: March 22, 2022

We’ve belatedly learned that LAURIE MANIFOLD, doyen of investigative reporters, died on March 3 [2022] at the age of 94.

ROY …

Posted: February 23, 2022

The funeral of David Banks will be held in Northumberland on Monday, March 7, 2022. There will be a very …

Posted: February 15, 2022

FORMER Daily Record photographer JOHN DEMPSIE died in Croydon Hospital on February 14 [2022], after a long and debilitating illness.

His …

Posted: February 11, 2022

WE’VE just heard the sad news that former Sunday People picture editor Mervyn Pamment died suddenly this morning [February 11, …

Posted: February 10, 2022

DEREK DODD, former chief-sub on the Sunday Mirror, London, and later, the paper’s northern editor in Manchester, died on February …

Posted: February 9, 2022

WE are sad and sorry to announce that ROY WHITE, an AMP founder member and for many years its treasurer, has died, …

Posted: February 1, 2022

By Andy Lines Chief reporter, Daily Mirror (Pic: Dick Williams)

Legendary and committed Daily Mirror reporter BILL DANIELS died on January 26 [2022], …

Posted: October 31, 2021

RUSSELL Steele (‘Rusty’ to one and all), former features editor of the Daily Record and sports editor of the Sunday Mail, died …

Posted: October 26, 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 2, 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 2, 2021

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

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

…

Posted: October 2, 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 13, 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 9, 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 7, 2021

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

Posted: August 25, 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 10, 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 31, 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 9, 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 14, 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 3, 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 6, 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 22, 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 5, 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 1, 2021

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

Posted: January 19, 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 16, 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 13, 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 …

Posted: January 11, 2021

BRlAN CROWTHER, former Daily Mirror crime reporter, died on January 9 [2021], aged 87. He is pictured, far right, with his brother …

Posted: January 7, 2021

ADRIAN BROWN, who ran the night sports desk on the Daily Mirror in the 1970s, died on Boxing Day [2020] at the …

Posted: December 11, 2020

Former Mirror Group promotions and publicity man MIKE ROSE died on November 18 [2020]. He was 84 and had been suffering from …

Posted: December 9, 2020

JAMES McINALLY, formerly of the Daily Record process department, died on November 17, [2020] aged 88. The reference to the Daily Record …

Posted: December 3, 2020

MALCOLM HANOVER, former boxing correspondent and sub-editor on The Sporting Life, died today [Dec 3, 2020], following complications after a fall at …

Posted: December 2, 2020

TOM BANHAM, who died on November 2 [2020], aged 86, was manager of the Mirror’s Holborn Post Room. Prior to that, he …

Posted: December 1, 2020

BOB IRELAND, giant character, legendary Mirror sub and king of the one-par headlines, died today (Dec 1, 2020), aged 82. Bob also …

Posted: November 26, 2020

JOHN CAPEL, long-serving Daily Mirror compositor, and later FOC of the Daily Mirror Composing Room Chapel, died on February 13 [2020], aged …

Posted: November 22, 2020

FORMER Daily Mirror Diarist and feature writer PAUL CALLAN has died. (Image: Mirrorpix)

By ANDY LINES, Daily Mirror: PAUL CALLAN had an extraordinary …

Posted: November 15, 2020

DEREK MASTERTON, one of the best-liked of Scottish journalists, died on November 14 [2020], aged 66.

Derek spent 30 years on the Daily …

Posted: November 8, 2020

FORMER Daily Record production journalist and sub-editor DAVID KELSO died in Ayr Hospital on November 3 [2020], from cancer. He was 63.

Educated …

Posted: October 20, 2020

DON CAMERON, who was on the Mirror newsdesk from the early 1970s until 1990, died in London on October 13, 2020, aged …

Posted: October 17, 2020

Charles ‘Charlie’ Smith, a former sports editor of the Daily Record, died in the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow in September …

Posted: October 17, 2020

LESLEY HARDIE, a feature writer on the Daily Record, died in the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow on July 20 [2020]. …

Posted: September 29, 2020

WE have recently heard of the death on August 28 [2020] of William “Bill” Payne, former Daily Record wire room manager. He …

Posted: September 18, 2020

WE ARE very sad to have to announce the death, on September 12 [2020] of AMP committee member and former MGN finance …

Posted: August 26, 2020

WE ARE sorry to learn of the death on June 26 [2020] of AMP member MICHAEL MURRAY. He was 79. Universally known …

Posted: August 2, 2020

We are very sad to report the death on July 30 of JIMMY BAYNES, six weeks short of his 97th birthday. This …

Posted: July 15, 2020

Thanks to ROBIN PARKIN who phoned from France to let us know about the death, on July 8 [2020], of WILLY WOLFF. …

Posted: July 9, 2020

STEPHEN CARPENTER, a former deputy circulation manager at MGN, died on June 11 [2020]. He was 94.

After leaving the Navy, Stephen worked …

Posted: July 2, 2020

Former award-winning Daily Record photographer CRAIG HALKETT has died, aged 64. A grandfather of six and great-grandfather of one, Craig died suddenly …

Posted: June 28, 2020

TONY HOSKINS, who spent most of his professional life working on the Daily Mirror’s Live Letters column, died on June 10 [2020] …

Posted: June 19, 2020

Former greyhound editor of The Sporting Life BOB BETTS has died, aged 75, in Addenbrooke’s Hospital [June 19, 2020] following treatment after …

Posted: June 3, 2020

PAT WELLAND has been in touch to let us know that former Daily Mirror man BRIAN SUTHERLAND, “master journalist and master raconteur”, …

Posted: May 30, 2020

Veteran Daily Mirror newsdesk secretary LOUISE FLOOD – she has worked at the Mirror for approaching 40 years – wanted to share …

Posted: May 18, 2020

From Andy Golden:

Former Sunday Mirror journalist STEVE BAILEY died on May 14 [2020] after a long illness.

Steve, 65, was a highly respected …

Posted: May 15, 2020

With thanks to Chris Johnson, Liverpool Daily Echo

FRANK CORLESS, who was the Daily Mirror’s Merseyside and North Wales district reporter for more …

Posted: May 15, 2020

Main report and picture: Chris Johnson/Luke Traynor – Liverpool Echo

Tributes have been paid to BILL MEALEY,  legendary Liverpool photographer and former northern …

Posted: May 5, 2020

We’ve just heard the sad news that the Sunday People’s GRAHAM BALL died yesterday [May 4, 2020]. Pictured here in 1984, Graham …

Posted: March 26, 2020

FRED LOFTHOUSE, who worked at MGN in the cashiers, and later in the Holborn library, died yesterday (Mar 25, 2020). He was …

Posted: March 7, 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 7, 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 24, 2020

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

Posted: February 20, 2020

Remembering Alice Avery

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

Posted: January 27, 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 24, 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 17, 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 28, 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 20, 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 7, 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 24, 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 14, 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 19, 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 19, 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 16, 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 22, 2019

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

His funeral is …

Posted: April 21, 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 17, 2019

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

Posted: April 1, 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 28, 2019

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

Jim was a successful …

Posted: March 25, 2019

JOHN CHAPLIN, a features sub on the Daily Mirror for many years, and a Saturday casual on the Sunday Mirror, died on …

Posted: March 22, 2019

ROBERT WILSON, former Sunday Mirror assistant editor, features, died on March 20 (2019). He is survived by his wife Pam, children Calum, …

Posted: March 22, 2019

JOHN KNIGHT, former Sunday Mirror assistant editor, died on March 20 (2019), aged 89.

From The Times, 06/05/2019: John Knight – a Fleet …

Posted: March 22, 2019

Former Daily Mirror news sub-editor LEN TAPPER died on March 20 (2019) aged 88.  [His funeral is on Wednesday April 3 at …

Posted: March 19, 2019

MIRROR Sport lost one of its best-loved journalists when MIKE RAMSBOTTOM died on January 10, (2019), aged 73. He was dubbed “Reggie” …

Posted: March 14, 2019

TERRY MERRIMAN, circulation rep for The Sporting Life, died on March 11 (2019) at the age of 80. His funeral is at …

Posted: February 12, 2019

HERBERT PEARSON, former Daily Mirror features executive and past editor of The European, died on February 12 (2019). He was 82.  Pic: …

Posted: January 13, 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 30, 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 28, 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 20, 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 20, 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 22, 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 8, 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 2, 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 19, 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 17, 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 21, 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 12, 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 8, 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 2, 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 27, 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 18, 2018

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

Posted: April 18, 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 29, 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 28, 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 22, 2018

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

Posted: February 22, 2018

ARTHUR DAVIDSON, QC, who was legal director at Mirror Group in the 1990s, died on January 16 (2018), aged 91. You can …

Posted: February 7, 2018

The funeral of former Daily Record crime reporter STUART “The Griff” GRIFFITHS takes place at Daldowie Crematorium, Glasgow on …

Posted: February 6, 2018

June Robson, widow of Daily Mirror wireroom man BILL “ROBBIE” ROBSON, has been in touch to tell us: “I sadly report the …

Posted: January 30, 2018

Former Daily Mirror reporter JOAN SMITH died in hospital in Birmingham just before Christmas. The funeral – just a short …

Posted: December 23, 2017

Funeral details: Allan Davies’s funeral will take place at 1.15pm on Wednesday, January 17 (2018) at Randalls Park Crematorium (Randalls Rd, Leatherhead …

Posted: November 27, 2017

ALAN HOBDAY, former associate editor of The People, died on November 26 (2017.) He had been northern editor, based in Manchester, then …

Posted: November 19, 2017

Our old friend and colleague DON MACKAY died in hospital on Friday night (November 17, 2017.)

From Nichola Mackay: Don’s friends were his …

Posted: November 10, 2017

Len’s funeral in Canterbury on November 28 will be private, family only. On the same day, though, all are welcome at a …

Posted: October 23, 2017

Recollections from Plain John Smith, John Edwards and Brian Bass follow this obituary by Freddy Mayhew (Press Gazette)

Former Daily Mirror journalist Paula …

Posted: October 21, 2017

Former Daily Mirror and Sunday Mirror legend PHIL MELLOR died on October 21, (2017.)

His funeral is at 1pm on Friday, November 17 …

Posted: September 7, 2017

Daily Mirror photographer ARTHUR SIDEY died on August 23 (2017). His funeral is at Easthampstead Park Cemetery and Crematorium, South Road, Bracknell, …

Posted: August 24, 2017

PETER ATKINSON – former Mirror journalist, Mirror-Badgers cricket star, keen sailor, great character and much more – died on August 19 (2017), …

Posted: August 23, 2017

LADY JODI CUDLIPP, widow of the late Lord Hugh Cudlipp, former Mirror Group editor, editorial director and chairman, died on August 9 …

Posted: August 4, 2017

We belatedly learned of the death in May of former Mirror Group production manager BARRY WARWICK. Thanks go to his friend and …

Posted: August 4, 2017

LACHIE KENNEDY, popular, long-serving reporter and news desk executive on the Daily Record, died on July 23 (2017).

Lachie began his career at the …

Posted: August 4, 2017

Former news sub GRAHAM NOBLE, who worked on a number of national newspapers including the Daily Mirror, Daily Express and The Daily …

Posted: June 25, 2017

FORMER Daily Record assistant editor STUART BARR died on April 23 (2017), aged 89. He began his distinguished newspaper career as a …

Posted: April 11, 2017

Former Sunday People journalist DENIS CASSIDY (also of the Cassidy and Leigh news agency) died on April 9 (2017) after a long …

Posted: March 13, 2017

Former Sunday People diarist FRANK JEFFERY died last November. This obituary includes words of tribute from his son Mick.

Frank Jeffery began his …

Posted: March 3, 2017

A memorial sevice for CHRIS BUCKLAND will be held at St Bride’s Church, Fleet Street, London, EC4Y 8AU at 11.30am …

Posted: February 12, 2017

Former Daily Mirror photographer ALBERT FOSTER died on February 12 [2017], aged 83. His funeral is at 11am on Friday, February 24 …

Posted: January 2, 2017

FORMER Daily Mirror sub-editor RON PELL died on December 29 (2016), aged 79.  Ron worked as a reader and reporter for the …

Posted: December 10, 2016

LINDA MCKAY died of pneumonia last December. Her funeral will take place at 10.30am on Tuesday, February 7 at Vale …

Posted: August 20, 2016

PEGGY HAYWARD, AMP member and widow of former Sporting Life executive editor the late Alec Hayward, died aged 100, on 14 August …

Posted: July 26, 2016

ROD SHELLEY: born November 24, 1945 – died July 24, 2016

We hear from his friend and colleague Alex Henderson that ROD SHELLEY, …

Posted: June 13, 2016

With thanks to ROY GREENSLADE and The Times
Photo: courtesy Press Gazette

Bernard Shrimsley, who edited The Sun, News of the World and Mail …

Posted: May 18, 2016

Former Daily Mirror gardening correspondent CHARLES LYTE died, aged 80, on May 17 (2016.) His funeral will be on May 31 at …

Posted: May 13, 2016

Colleagues can read tributes to Steve archived by St Bride’s Church, Fleet St on www.stbrides.com/steve-turner

Our old friend and colleague STEVE TURNER died yesterday …

Posted: April 25, 2016

Former Mirror cashier PATRICIA MOBBS died last February (2016), and her husband ROY, who was also a Mirror cashier, sent these words …

Posted: March 22, 2016

With thanks to the Racing Post/Graham Dench, and to GEOFF LESTER

JOHN SANTER’S funeral will be on Thursday April 7, 2.15 at Church …

Posted: March 22, 2016

DOUGLAS GRAHAM, former deputy features editor of the Daily Record, died on February 21 (2016), aged 80.

A popular and reliable colleague and …

Posted: March 17, 2016

JOHN PRINCE, former assistant news editor on the Daily Mirror in Manchester, died last Friday, March 11. His funeral will take place …

Posted: March 10, 2016

Former Sunday Mirror sports reporter VINCE WILSON died on March 7 (2016), aged 83. His funeral is at noon on Friday, March …

Posted: March 6, 2016

We heard belatedly that ex-Mirror sub DAVID “DAI” DAVIES died on November 22, 2015. Here is an appreciation by PAT WELLAND. Additional …

Posted: February 8, 2016

FORMER MGN finance director LAWRENCE GUEST, who died on January 14 (2016), is remembered by ROY WHITE and, below, JOHN HEMPLE.

We always …

Posted: February 3, 2016

FORMER Mirror reporter and foreign editor NICK DAVIES died last week (end January, 2016) after a short illness.

PIC: Thanks to …

Posted: January 27, 2016

FORMER Daily Mirror sub-editor BEN NOBLE has died, and his funeral is this Friday, January 29, 9.30am at Harlow crematorium.

Obituary by PAT …

Posted: October 19, 2015

Former Mirror Group journalist and later media consultant JOHN MADDOCK died in hospital on September 3 (2015) from cancer. He was 73.

When …

Posted: October 12, 2015

Occasionally the old chums’ Mirror telegraph lets us down, and it’s sad to say that we heard only recently that author and …

Posted: September 29, 2015

Former Mirror TV editor TONY PRATT died on September 13 (2015) aged 75.

Tony joined the newly established Brentwood Review as a trainee …

Posted: August 23, 2015

Former People deputy news editor MAURICE KRAIS died on August 20. He was 86.

In the heyday of national newspapers, long before the …

Posted: July 22, 2015

Former Daily Mirror sub-editor and writer DAVID BRADBURY died on July 13 (2015), from cancer, at University College Hospital. The funeral was …

Posted: July 10, 2015

LAIRD — ENDELL. Peacefully, at Lillyburn Care Home, on Wednesday, 8th July 2015, surrounded by his loving wife and children. Endell, ex-Editor-in-Chief …

Posted: June 30, 2015

Former Sun night editor and senior Daily Mirror executive VIC MAYHEW has died, aged 77.

Obituary by ROY GREENSLADE

It is after 1am on …

Posted: May 25, 2015

FROM AMP committee member JOHN HEMPLE:

It is with a heavy heart and a great deal of personal sadness that I have to …

Posted: May 13, 2015

Former Sunday Mail showbusiness editor SCOTT ROBINSON died, aged 73, in December last year. Scott, who had battled cancer for more than …

Posted: April 3, 2015

Former Reveille and Sunday Mirror sub editor and writer ALBERTJACOBS died on November 12 last year (2014), aged 82. He’s pictured above, …

Posted: March 11, 2015

Sunday People reporter LEN ADAMS died suddenly on March 4 (2015) aged 88. (Wendy Bowring (Len’s younger daughter) advises that a service …

Posted: February 18, 2015

FORMER Daily Record chief reporter Gordon Airs died on February 14 (2015) after a short illness. He was 75. He was the …

Posted: February 6, 2015

PAUL DAVIDSON’S funeral will take place at 1.15pm on Wednesday, March 4, at Colchester Crematorium, Mersea Road, Colchester, Essex CO2 8RU.
Afterwards all …

Posted: February 2, 2015

Former advertisement manager on The Sporting Life, DEXTER ADAMS, died on January 31 (2015). Dexter, who also worked in the ad department …

Posted: November 12, 2014

Remembering HARRY ARNOLD – Funeral details: Monday, November, 24 (2014) at noon, St Mary’s Church, Chilham Square, Chilham, Kent CT4 8DE, followed …

Posted: October 15, 2014

DAILY MIRROR TV editor and writer JACK BELL died on September 4 (2014) aged 88, after a long illness. His funeral took …

Posted: September 18, 2014

By MIKE MCCARTHY

MURRAY DAVIES, a senior, admired and much-liked reporter and feature writer on the Daily Mirror and The People from 1974 …

Posted: August 25, 2014

BERNARD VICKERS, legendary editor of the Daily Record, died on August 22 (2014) after a short illness. He was 82. He joined …

Posted: July 11, 2014

TONY SMITH, legendary sports editor of the Sunday Mirror, died on July 10 (2014), aged 81, after a long illness. (The funeral …

Posted: May 6, 2014

ALF RICHARDS, a Sporting Life stalwart since the Odhams days, died at home on May 3 (2014). He had been ill with …

Posted: April 13, 2014

The Mirror’s KEITH WAITE, one of Britain’s greatest-ever social and political cartoonists, died suddenly, aged 87, on April 10 (2014) in St …

Posted: March 14, 2014

Edited from Martin Stellman’s obituary in The Guardian
My friend ANGELA PITTS, who died in February in Tarifa, southern Spain, aged 72, was …

Posted: February 28, 2014

By Roy Greenslade/photo: Mirrorpix: MIKE TAYLOR, former deputy editor of the Daily Mirrorand its one-time northern editor, died on February 28 (2014) …

Posted: January 3, 2014

TOM BROWN writes:
Derek Webster, who died aged 87 on December 28 (2013), edited the Scottish Daily Record when it won the accolades …

Posted: December 7, 2013

MONTE FRESCO, Daily Mirror photographer, died on December 5 (2013) aged 77.

His funeral will take place at 2:40pm on Tuesday, December 17 …

Posted: December 6, 2013

Former Man of the People RAY NUNN died in hospital on December 3 at Tonbridge, Kent, aged 91.

Ray joined the Sunday People …

Posted: November 11, 2013

John Desborough, CBE, former chief political correspondent of the Daily Mirror, died on his 84th birthday on November 8. He had been …

Posted: November 11, 2013

Tabloid journalist, broadcaster, wit and blogger Ian Skidmore died on October 3 (2013) aged 84.

Skidmore joined the Manchester City News after national …

Posted: November 11, 2013

DEREK ROGERS, AMP committee stalwart and highly respected industry figure, died on October 22 (2013). Tributes from AMP chairman Tom Brown and …

Posted: October 23, 2013

Henry William Leonard Sandys – universally known as Len – died on September 21 (2013) aged 87.

Proud of his status as a …

Posted: September 7, 2013

Former Daily Mirror industrial editor Geoffrey Goodman died on September 5, aged 91.

“The Voice of the Mirror: Daily Mirror veteran Geoffrey Goodman …

Posted: August 21, 2013

Legendary Daily Mirror reporter ‘Big Joe’ Gorrod has died in Belfast following a short illness, a month short of his 75th birthday. …

Posted: July 29, 2013

DEREK PRYCE, former art editor of the Daily Mirror and art director of the Sunday Mirror, died on July 21 from liver …

Posted: February 16, 2013

Peter Mills, former art editor of the Sunday Mirror, died on January 27 (2013) aged 91.

Peter became ill with pneumonia and died …

Posted: February 16, 2013

A former motoring correspondent at the Daily Record, Malcolm McDougall, has died aged 73.

And, says his successor at the paper, Bill Caven, …

Posted: January 9, 2013

Former Daily Mirror photographer Charles Ley died on January 3, 2013, a month short of his 88th birthday. (Funeral details on News.)

Charlie …

Posted: January 7, 2013

John Jenkinson, former Mirror Group Newspapers publicity director, died of a heart attack at his London home on New Year’s Day, aged …

Posted: January 7, 2013

The funeral of AMP’s life president Eric Newson, who died last October, took place at Chelmsford Crematorium on November 12 (2012). There …

Posted: September 26, 2012

FRANK DIXON, ex-Daily Mirror Manchester sub-editor, died in July at the age of 94 after a long battle with Alzheimer’s.
Frank, a second …

Posted: September 26, 2012

A memorial service for Derek Jameson was held at St Bride’s church off Fleet Street at 11.30am on 28 November – the …

Posted: August 16, 2012

ALF MORRIS, our first Parliamentary Patron, a great friend of the Mirror, and man to whom a debt is owed by every …

Posted: July 15, 2012

RONNIE BEDFORD, who has died aged 90, was science editor for the Daily Mirror for almost a quarter of a century. And …

Posted: July 15, 2012

ROB CUNNINGHAM on the loss of an AMP committee member…

Although I knew Don Hepburn for only a short time at the Daily …

Posted: July 15, 2012

BOB EDWARDS, who died in May aged 86, was a prominent if somewhat maverick journalist with the distinction of having been appointed …

Posted: June 14, 2012

JACK REGAN, for many years Circulation Manager of the Sunday People, died in March aged 91. After retiring he enjoyed spending time …

Posted: May 12, 2012

ROYAL reporter James Whitaker, nicknamed The Big Red Tomato by Princess Diana, died in February, aged 71.

His biggest exclusive was his revelation …

Posted: May 11, 2012

GARTH Gibbs, below, one of the most colourful characters of the old Fleet Street, died in August, 2011, aged 75, after a …

Posted: May 11, 2012

BARRY Wigmore, veteran Fleet Street and Daily Mirror reporter, died in July 2011 aged 65.

He joined the Mirror in 1977 from the …

Posted: May 10, 2012

STEVE Delve, who was with the Sporting Life for 33 years and went on to work for the Racing Post, died in …

Posted: May 4, 2012

JOHN Varley, retired Daily Mirror photographer in Leeds, has died aged 76. John was a pictureman with a ‘golden eye’ who looked …

Posted: May 4, 2012

Derek Haynes, formerly Managing Director of the Mirror titles in Manchester died of cancer on 21st February, aged 64.

Derek, fondly known by …

Posted: November 5, 2011

A sad farewell

By PAT WELLAND

DALE HARRISON, much loved and respected Daily Mirror sub-editor for 32 years and a true gentleman of Fleet …

Posted: May 11, 2011

William Soutar – or Willie, as he was known by many at the Mirror – died on Sunday, 7th December 2008 aged …

Posted: May 11, 2011

‘Bill’ Campbell, the Chief Engineer of the Daily Mirror for over twenty years has died of cancer aged 68. He was born …

Posted: May 11, 2011

Tony Stalker Death: Ex Group Development Director 19985-91

Tony Stalker, former Group Development Director at Holborn Circus, died in May this year, just …

Posted: May 11, 2011

MIRRORMAN SIMON CLYNE DIES AT 102
by Ray Weaver

Simon Clyne, the premier Fleet Street picture editor of the 1950’s and 60’s has died …

Posted: May 11, 2011

He WAS Mr Mirror

Richard Stott, who died at the end of July, was almost as famous for his cutting wit and sharp …

Posted: May 11, 2011

PERCY, KING OF THE COLONIALS

Percy Roberts, who headed Mirror group for several years until his retirement in 1980, has died at the …

Posted: May 11, 2011

A Sad Farewell

by Richard Stott

The best possible tribute to Paul Foot’s column in the Daily Mirror was paid by Kelvin MacKenzie. What …

Posted: May 11, 2011

‘THE PERISHERS’ PRODUCER DIES
FROM: the Press Gazette

Artist and writer Maurice Dodd, who produced the Daily Mirror cartoon strip The Perishers which ran …

Posted: May 11, 2011

Kevin ‘Fitz’ Fitzpatrick, ex Mirror Manchester and one of the North West’s most popular and talented newspaper photographers, has died at the …

Posted: May 11, 2011

Posted: May 11, 2011

A sad farewell

John Flint, former night news editor of the Daily Mirror in Manchester has died after a long illness at the …

Posted: May 11, 2011

By David Phillips

Jimmy Bygrave was a ‘Mirror Man’ practically born and bred. His mother and father both worked on the paper and …

Posted: May 11, 2011

Hugh Corrie: The lawyer journalists loved

Richard Stott’s tribute to Hugh Corrie in UKPG

Wednesday, 15 November 2006

Hugh Corrie, who has died at the …

Posted: May 11, 2011

Henry Jackson died on 1st January 2009 aged 94 years. Henry was former manager of the Wire Room at MGN Holborn Circus …

Posted: May 11, 2011

Harold Laverty: Small in Stature but Big on Action!
Gerald Mowbray’s tribute to Harold Laverty.

Harold Laverty, ex Colour Production Manager at Holborn Circus …

Posted: May 11, 2011

George Harrop, former Northern Night Picture Editor of the Daily Mirror, renowned wit and master of great one line jokes has died, …

Posted: May 11, 2011

Posted: May 11, 2011

Top Cartoonist David Rowe, who amused millions of Mirror readers every day for 23 years sadly died on Wednesday 13th October 2004, …

Posted: May 11, 2011

Brian McConnell has died, at the age of 75. His outstanding career in journalism spanned more than 60 years, many of them …

Posted: May 11, 2011

By Ray Setterfield

One of the drawbacks of advancing age is the increasing likelihood that the Farewell to Old Friends page in Mirror …

Posted: May 11, 2011

Alisdair MacDonald Death: Daily Mirror Photographer

Before Gordon Brown emerged with the red budget box in Downing Street on budget day this year …

Posted: May 11, 2011

Alex Cameron, who died recently, was the Chief Sports Reporter of the Daily Record for over 20 years. During his distinguished career …

Posted: May 11, 2011

Alan Daley, ex Mirror Circulation Manchester, died recently aged 70. He joined the Mirror Circulation Department during the golden years in the …

Posted: May 18, 2010

Hundreds of former Fleet Street colleagues, friends and family will be gathering in Wraysbury next Friday, June 18, for the funeral of …

Posted: May 11, 2010

By Ray Setterfield

Vic rose to become deputy editor of the Sunday Mirror. But it is not titles that matter, the fact is …

Posted: May 11, 2010

Former Mirror executive Len Woodliff has died at his home in Farnham, Surrey, aged 88.

He held senior positions over 30 years on …

Posted: December 20, 2008

Jim Adams died on 20th December 2008 aged 88 years. Jim worked for some 20 years at the Mirror in the Building …

Posted: June 6, 2008

Phyllis Vinicombe: 1914-2008

A Tribute by Stephen Thomas, Nephew

Phyllis (Phyl) Vinicombe, who was proud to have been employed by the Daily Mirror for …

Posted: April 6, 2008

Brian Allt, MGN’s Media Research Supremo, died on 6th April 2008 in Bury St Edmunds Hospital, aged 80 years, after several months …

Posted: March 28, 2008

Andrew Bruce has advised that his father, Derek Bruce, died peacefully on 28th March 2008 after suffering combined kidney and liver illnesses …

Posted: January 1, 2008

Norman Pearlman, who worked in the Circulation Department of the Daily Mirror offices in Manchester from the early 1950’s until his retirement, …

Posted: January 1, 2007

Dave Phillips had a simple claim to fame. He was the man who made the Daily Mirror”s racing pages the best in …

Posted: April 30, 2006

Bob Avery, one of the founding members of AMP died on Easter Monday 2006 of cancer. We have two tributes from ex-colleagues …

Posted: July 15, 2005

Patrick Mennem, doyen of motoring correspondents. Born April 1927; married journalist Anne Ince, one son, died July 16, 2005.

Patrick Mennem entered Fleet …

Posted: October 12, 2004

Tony Boram, our Life President sadly died on 12th October 2004. He was at home and died in his sleep. Tony Boram’s …

Posted: December 14, 2003

by Patricia Smyllie (who withstood the Marshall slings and arrows for many years)

Bill Marshall, one of Fleet Street’s great eccentric writers, died …

Posted: July 19, 2002

Sports journalist who survived Man U’s devastating air disaster.
by Brian Glanville, Guardian

The name of Frank Taylor, who has died of cancer aged …

Posted: January 31, 2001

M. PAGE, DM Editorial

(died 31st January 2001, aged 67)

by Brian Bass

MICK PAGE was a journalist’s journalist. While others might be enjoying the …

Posted: February 5, 0208

Worked his way up from office boy to Old Codger on the Mirror’s popular live letters page

Ronald Bedford
Tuesday February 5, 2008

Guardian
My friend …