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Posted: October 19, 2025

DUE to popular demand, a second annual MGN reunion took place on May 12 at the The Sir Christopher Hatton Pub …

Posted: January 20, 2023

Here’s the full issue of David Thompson ‘s Capel reporter.

Capel Reporter 20pp

Posted: May 3, 2022

By Paul Duffett

Hi everyone,
May 12 is an ideal opportunity to mark the 24th anniversary of the final edition of The Sporting Life.

Please …

Posted: April 8, 2022

… So I wrote ‘Dead Lies’ – quickly, before he changed his mind! He seemed to like it. Things moved forward at …

Posted: July 10, 2021

AS promised, here are some extracts from Geoff Lester’s extraordinary account of his 34-year working life on The Sporting Life, …

Posted: May 30, 2021

DONALD MCMASTER joined the Record and Mail’s Process Department at the company’s old HQ in Glasgow’s Hope Street before the move to …

Posted: May 24, 2021

IT’S hard to believe now but sports stories were once confined to back pages of Fleet Street newspapers. John Jackson was a …

Posted: November 25, 2020

PETER THOMSON’S “The Quest for Freedom” was published this June, and commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of the death of the great socialist …

Posted: November 8, 2020

MAGGIE HALL’S new book is All Things Dracula: An A-Z Of The Count Who Refuses To Die. She writes: “As the blurb …

Posted: October 29, 2020

TERRY PATTINSON’s book has been in the pipeline for many years, and it’s thanks to the Covid lockdown that former Daily Mirror …

Posted: October 22, 2020

A new novel by TONY DELANO, the Daily Mirror’s former foreign correspondent (among other roles), is always worth checking out.

He’s pictured, right, …

Posted: May 19, 2020

DESPITE lockdown limitations, those two old Mirror hacks John and Barbara Jackson happily celebrated their Diamond Wedding on May 7.

Said Barbara: “Sixty …

Posted: May 9, 2020

FORMER Sunday People journalist TONY BASSETT has had his second book published – the spy thriller The Lazarus Charter. The new book …

Posted: April 5, 2019

If yes, put this in your diary. The next Sporting Life reunion is on Thursday, May 9 from 6.30pm onwards, earlier if …

Posted: January 7, 2019

From KEN MCMASTER:

My father, Donald McMaster, retired from the Daily Record process department in 1986 after many years’ service.

He will be 98 …

Posted: December 6, 2018

FORMER Sunday People journalist Tony Bassett began writing books three years ago after more than forty years in journalism, and has just …

Posted: September 4, 2018

FORMER Sporting Life executive editor and golf correspondent extraordinaire Jeremy Chapman and his wife Christa celebrated their Golden Wedding in July. It …

Posted: August 19, 2018

Author Daniel M Smith is appealing for help with research for his latest book.

He writes: “Were you working on the Sunday Mirror …

Posted: February 28, 2018

Were you a Sporting Lifer? In Long Acre? Holborn? Clerkenwell? Canary Wharf?

The Sporting Life was Britain’s oldest daily newspaper, racing’s greatest daily …

Posted: February 13, 2018

Diamond Weddings are quite rare, perhaps even more so in the newspaper business! So let’s congratulate FRED LOFTHOUSE and his wife Olive …

Posted: January 2, 2018

From Don’s daughter Fiona:

I’m writing to see if anyone in the AMP remembers my father, Don Cameron, who worked on the Mirror …

Posted: November 20, 2017

CHAS BATES reports: We had a great time celebrating Maxwell Day at the Cheshire Cheese on November 11. There were 18 of …

Posted: November 1, 2017

From ROY JACKSON

COME and  join us the annual lino ops/comps gathering at the Cheshire Cheese (145 Fleet St, London EC4A 2BU), on …

Posted: January 31, 2017

By Jill Palmer

Former veteran Daily Mirror reporter GEOFF LAKEMAN is now a musician and has released his debut solo CD – at …

Posted: October 5, 2016

FORMER Daily Mirror industrial editor Terry Pattinson has written another play, this time a comedy about life in old Fleet Street.

The play …

Posted: August 16, 2016

War hero and AMP stalwart JIMMY BAYNES recently made a pilgrimage of sorts to Winchester to restore an old soldier’s ancient trophy …

Posted: February 4, 2016

FORMER Mirror reporter STEVE ATKINSON’s  first book of short stories – Ghosts who Google (Amazon), published in May 2013, has gone to …

Posted: February 4, 2016

FORMER Mirror features sub JOHN CHAPLIN has just published his 13th book – Speedway Legends. It maybe an unlucky number for some, …

Posted: January 12, 2016

Were you there? MGN advertisement department stalwart and active AMP member Ian Macdonald sent in this group photo of some of his …

Posted: May 15, 2014

RETIRED Daily Mirror features sub JOHN CHAPLIN publishes his twelfth book this autumn. Called Speedway: The Greatest Moments it deals with his …