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  City of London
  The City of London is an area in central London, England. In the medieval period it constituted most of London, but the conurbation has grown far beyond it. As the City’s boundaries have remained almost unchanged since the Middle Ages, it is now only a tiny part of the metropolis, though it remains a notable part of central London, holds city status in its own right, and is a separate ceremonial county.
  It is often referred to as the City (often written on maps as "City") or the Square Mile, as it is just over one square mile (1.12 sq mi/2.90 km²) in area. These terms are also often used as metonyms for the United Kingdom's financial services industry, which continues a notable history of being based in the City.
  The term London now refers to a much larger conurbation roughly corresponding to Greater London, a local government area which includes 32 London boroughs including the City of Westminster as well as the City of London. The local authority for the City, the City of London Corporation, is unique in the United Kingdom, and has some unusual responsibilities for a local authority in Britain, such as being the police authority for the City. It also has responsibilities and ownerships beyond the City's boundaries. The Corporation is headed by the Lord Mayor of the City of London, an office separate from (and much older than) the Mayor of London.
  
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  East Midlands
  The East Midlands is one of the regions of England, consisting of most of the eastern half of the traditional region of the Midlands. It encompasses the combined area of Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Rutland, Northamptonshire and most of Lincolnshire.
  A looser definition of the East Midlands might also include the City of Peterborough (once part of Northamptonshire, but now Cambridgeshire), and North Lincolnshire.^{[citation needed]}
  The highest point in the region is Kinder Scout in the Peak District, at 2,088 ft (636 m). The centre of the East Midlands area lies roughly between Bingham and Bottesford. The geographical centre of England lies in Higham on the Hill in west Leicestershire, close to the boundary between the East and West Midlands. 88% of the land is rural, although agriculture accounts for less than three percent of the region's jobs. All of the coastline within the region falls within Lincolnshire.
  The region is home to large quantities of limestone, and the East Midlands Oil Province. Charnwood Forest is noted for its abundant levels of volcanic rock, estimated to be approximately 600 million years old.
  
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  East of England
  The East of England is one of the nine official regions of England. It was created in 1994 and was adopted for statistics from 1999. It includes the ceremonial counties of Essex, Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Norfolk and Suffolk. Essex has the highest population in the region.
  Its population as of the 2001 census was 5,388,140.^{[citation needed]} The area is mostly low-lying, and the highest place is the top of the Dunstable Downs at 243 m (797 ft).^{[citation needed]}Norwich, Peterborough, Luton and Southend-on-Sea are the region's most populous urban areas. The southern part of the region lies in the London commuter belt.
  The area is one of the flattest in the UK. Cambridgeshire is part of The Fens. The lowest point in the UK is Holme Fen, which is 3 metres below sea level.
  Before the creation of the East of England region there had been a smaller standard statistical region of East Anglia which did not include Essex, Hertfordshire or Bedfordshire. They had previously been included in the South East region. The East of England civil defence region shared the boundaries of the current region.
  
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• Hartlepool Mail
  The Hartlepool Mail is a newspaper serving Hartlepool and the surrounding area. It has an average daily circulation of 14,198.
  The paper was founded in Hartlepool in 1877 as The Northern Daily Mail and continued to be printed in the town until August 2006, when the printing staff were told they would be made redundant on 30 September. The newspaper's owners, Johnston Press, decided it was in the interests of their business to move printing to Sunderland.
  The newspaper is also distributed in the Peterlee area under the Peterlee Mail name.
  
  
  
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  London
  London ⁱ/ˈlʌndən/ is the capital city of England and the United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its founding by the Romans, who named it Londinium. London's ancient core, the City of London, largely retains its square-mile mediaeval boundaries. Since at least the 19th century, the name London has also referred to the metropolis developed around this core. The bulk of this conurbation forms the London region and the Greater London administrative area, governed by the elected Mayor of London and the London Assembly.
  London is a leading global city, with strengths in the arts, commerce, education, entertainment, fashion, finance, healthcare, media, professional services, research and development, tourism and transport all contributing to its prominence. It is the world's leading financial centre alongside New York City and has the fifth-largest city GDP in the world (and the largest in Europe). London has been described as a world cultural capital. It was the world's most visited city during 2011 and London Heathrow is the world's busiest airport by number of international passengers. London's 43 universities form the largest concentration of higher education in Europe. In 2012 London will become the first city to host the modern Summer Olympic Games three times.
  
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  Northern Ireland
  Northern Ireland (Irish: Tuaisceart Éireann pronounced [ˈt̪ˠuəʃcəɾˠt̪ˠ ˈeːɾʲən̪ˠ] ( listen), Ulster Scots: Norlin Airlann or Norlin Airlan) is a part of the United Kingdom in the north-east of the island of Ireland. It shares a border with the Republic of Ireland to the south and west. As of 2001, its population was 1,685,000, constituting about 30% of the island's total population and about 3% of the population of the United Kingdom. Since the signing of the Good Friday Agreement in 1998, Northern Ireland is largely self-governing. According to the agreement, Northern Ireland co-operates with the rest of Ireland – from which it was partitioned in 1921 — on some policy areas, while other areas are reserved for the Government of the United Kingdom, though the Republic of Ireland "may put forward views and proposals".
  Northern Ireland was for many years the site of a violent and bitter inter-communal conflict — the Troubles — which was caused by divisions between nationalists, who are predominantly Roman Catholic, and unionists, who are predominantly Protestant. Unionists want Northern Ireland to remain as a part of the United Kingdom, and generally see themselves as British, while nationalists wish for it to be politically reunited with the rest of Ireland, independent of British rule, and generally see themselves as Irish. Additionally, people from both sides of the community may describe themselves as Northern Irish. Since 1998, most of the paramilitary groups involved in the Troubles have ceased their armed campaigns.
  
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  Russia
  Russia ⁱ/ˈrʌʃə/ or /ˈrʊʃə/ (Russian: Россия, tr. Rossiya; IPA: [rɐˈsʲijə] ( listen)), also officially known as the Russian Federation (Russian: Российская Федерация, tr. Rossiyskaya Federatsiya; IPA: [rɐˈsʲijskəjə fʲɪdʲɪˈratsɨjə] ( listen)), is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects. From northwest to southeast, Russia shares borders with Norway, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland (both via Kaliningrad Oblast), Belarus, Ukraine, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, China, Mongolia, and North Korea. It also has maritime borders with Japan by the Sea of Okhotsk, and the US state of Alaska by the Bering Strait. At 17,075,400 square kilometres (6,592,800 sq mi), Russia is the largest country in the world, covering more than one eighth of the Earth's inhabited land area. Russia is also the eighth most populous nation with 143 million people. It extends across the whole of northern Asia and 40% of Europe, spanning nine time zones and incorporating a wide range of environments and landforms. Russia has the world's largest reserves of mineral and energy resources and is the largest producer of oil and natural gas globally. Russia has the world's largest forest reserves and its lakes contain approximately one-quarter of the world's fresh water.
  
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  Scotland
  Scotland (Scottish Gaelic: Alba ([ˈalˠ̪apə]  listen (help·info))) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the southwest. In addition to the mainland, Scotland constitutes over 790 islands including the Northern Isles and the Hebrides.
  Edinburgh, the country's capital and second largest city, is one of Europe's largest financial centres. Edinburgh was the hub of the Scottish Enlightenment of the 18th century, which transformed Scotland into one of the commercial, intellectual and industrial powerhouses of Europe. Glasgow, Scotland's largest city, was once one of the world's leading industrial cities and now lies at the centre of the Greater Glasgow conurbation. Scottish waters consist of a large sector of the North Atlantic and the North Sea, containing the largest oil reserves in the European Union. This has given Aberdeen, the third largest city in Scotland, the title of Europe's oil capital.
  
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  South West England
  South West England is one of the regions of England defined by the Government of the United Kingdom for statistical and other purposes. It is the largest such region in area, covering 9,200 square miles (23,828 km²) and comprising Bristol, Gloucestershire, Somerset, Dorset, Wiltshire, Devon, Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. Five million people live there. The region includes the area often known as the West Country, and much of Wessex. The size of the region is shown by the fact that the northern part of Gloucestershire, near Chipping Campden, is as close to the Scottish border as it is to the tip of Cornwall. The largest city is Bristol. Other major urban centres include Plymouth, Swindon, Gloucester, Exeter, Bath, and the South East Dorset conurbation of Bournemouth, Poole and Christchurch.
  The region includes two National Parks and four World Heritage Sites, including Stonehenge.
  Traditionally, the South West of England has been well known for producing Cheddar cheese, which originated in the Somerset village of Cheddar, for Devon cream teas, Cornish pasties, and for cider. It is also well known as the home of the Eden Project, Aardman Animations, the Glastonbury Festival, the Bristol International Balloon Fiesta, trip hop music and also Cornwall's surfing beaches.
  
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  Wales
  Wales ⁱ/ˈweɪlz/ (Welsh: Cymru;Welsh pronunciation: [ˈkəm.rɨ] ( listen)) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain,bordered by England to its east and the Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea to its west. It has a population of three million, and a total area of 20,779 km² (8,023 sq mi). Wales has over 1,200 km (750 mi) of coastline, including its offshore islands; the largest, Anglesey (Ynys Môn), is also the largest island in the Irish Sea. Wales is largely mountainous, with its highest peaks in the north and central areas, especially in Snowdonia (Eryri), which contains Snowdon (Yr Wyddfa), its highest summit.
  During the Iron Age and early medieval period, Wales was inhabited by the Celtic Britons. A distinct Welsh national identity emerged in the centuries after the Roman withdrawal from Britain in the 5th century, and Wales is regarded as one of the modern Celtic nations today. Gruffydd ap Llywelyn was recognised as King of Wales in 1057. Llywelyn ap Gruffydd's death in 1282 marked the completion of Edward I of England's conquest of Wales. The castles and town walls erected to ensure its permanence are now UNESCO World Heritage Sites. Owain Glyndŵr briefly restored independence to what was to become modern Wales, in the early 15th century. Wales was subsequently annexed by England under the Laws in Wales Acts 1535–1542 since when, excluding those matters now devolved to Wales, English law has been the legal system of Wales and England. Distinctive Welsh politics developed in the 19th century. Welsh Liberalism, exemplified in the early 20th century by Lloyd George, was displaced by the growth of socialism and the Labour Party. Welsh national feeling grew over the century; Plaid Cymru was formed in 1925 and The Welsh Language Society in 1962. The National Assembly for Wales, created in 1999 following a referendum, holds responsibility for a range of devolved policy matters.
  
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  Alexander Lebedev
  Alexander Yevgenievich Lebedev (Russian: Александр Евгеньевич Лебедев, born 16 December 1959 in Moscow) is a Russian businessman, referred to as one of the Russian oligarchs.
  In May 2008, he was listed by Forbes magazine as one of the richest Russians and as the 358th richest person in the world with an estimated fortune of $3.1 billion. He owns a third of airline Aeroflot, and is part owner of the Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta and owner of four UK newspapers with son Evgeny Lebedev: the London Evening Standard, The Independent, the Independent on Sunday and the new i newspaper.
  Alexander Lebedev was born to a family which was part of the Moscow intelligentsia. His father, Evgeny Nikolaevich Lebedev, was a sportsperson - a member of the Soviet National Water polo team, and was later a Professor at Bauman Moscow Highest Technical School. Alexander's mother, Maria Sergeyevna, after graduating from Moscow Pedagogic Institute worked in a rural Sakhalin school, then taught English in a Moscow tertiary school.
  
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  Alison Cork
  
  Alison Helen Lucy Cork (born 28 July 1963) is an English home expert, writer and broadcaster. She works extensively in TV, radio, publishing and journalism.
  Cork co-founded mail order publishing company Carnell Ltd with entrepreneur publisher John P Gommes. It published eclectic titles such as How to Talk To Your Cat and Vinegar, Honey and Lemon, Nature’s Medicine Chest. The Government Auction Handbook sold 200,000 copies in the space of a few months. In 1995, Cork wrote The Streetwise Guide To Renovating Your Home, based on her various experiences of renovating property and dealing with builders. Cork wrote Special Occasions in 2000, a book of recipes and creative ideas.
  Cork has worked as a presenter for Carlton Food Network, restaurant critic for LBC Radio, gardening expert for BBC Radio Wales, food journalist on BBC Radio 4's Food programme, and as a travel correspondent on BBC Radio 4’s Breakaway. Cork’s first television series was The Christmas Show, for Westcountry Television. In 1996 ITV commissioned Cork’s first network show, Home In The Country. Between 2001 and 2004, Cork presented a number of TV series, including Countdown To Christmas and Domestic Magic, both for Channel Five. She also appeared on The Wright Stuff. In 2005 Cork presented a 30-part series for ITV called Don’t Move, Improve, which saw her travelling the country with fellow presenter Michael Holmes. In the last five years, Cork has presented various home interest shows, including Homes & Property, 60 Minute Makeover and Help I Hate My House!. She was also a regular on London Tonight and LBC As of 2011, Cork is the Homes presenter for ITV This Morning.
  
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• Andrew Gilligan
  Andrew Paul Gilligan (born 22 November 1968) is a British journalist best known for a 2003 report on BBC Radio 4's The Today Programme in which he said a British government briefing paper on Iraq and weapons of mass destruction (the September Dossier) had been 'sexed up'.
  Gilligan was born in Teddington in London and was educated at Grey Court School and at St John's College, Cambridge, where he studied history and was news editor of of the student newspaper Varsity. He was also a member of Cambridge Organisation of Labour Students and stood as one of its candidates for the Cambridge delegation to the National Union of Students conference in 1994.^{[citation needed]}Keith Vaz said he employed Gilligan as an intern, but then dismissed him because he had forged references on his CV.
  In 1994, after a summer placement on The Independent,^{[citation needed]} he joined the Cambridge Evening News and later moved to the Sunday Telegraph where he became a specialist reporter on defence. In 1999 he was recruited by BBC Radio 4 Today programme editor Rod Liddle as Defence and Diplomatic Correspondent. In May 2003, Gilligan made a broadcast in which he claimed that the British Government had "sexed up" a report in order to to exaggerate the WMD capabilities of Saddam Hussein. Gilligan resigned from the BBC in 2004, in the wake of the Hutton Inquiry and Butler Enquiry. In a statement, he admitted making mistakes and also stated, "The government did sex up the dossier, transforming possibilities and probabilities into certainties, removing vital caveats".
  
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• Bert Gunn
  Herbert Smith "Bert" Gunn (3 April 1903–2 March 1962) was a British newspaper editor.
  Born in Gravesend, Gunn worked as a reporter for the Kent Messenger, and then the Straits Times in Singapore. He returned to the UK to work at the Manchester Evening News, then the London Evening News and the Evening Standard. He also married, and had two sons: Thom Gunn, later a poet, and Ander Gunn, later a photographer.
  In 1936, Gunn became the first northern editor of the Daily Express, then in 1943 became managing editor. He wrote the headline "It's That Man Again", referring to Hitler, later to become the title of a popular radio show.
  Gunn became editor of the Evening Standard in 1944, but owner Lord Beaverbrook disagreed with his plans to adopt a more populist approach, and Gunn left in 1952. Gunn also revealed that Labour Party MP Garry Allighan was leaking stories to the newspaper, following which Allighan resigned.
  In 1953, Gunn joined the Daily Sketch as its editor, and doubled its circulation in six years. In 1958–1959, he was the President of the Institute of Journalists. He moved to edit the Sunday Dispatch in 1959, but this was merged with the Sunday Express in 1961 and Gunn resigned from Associated Newspapers in 1962.
  
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  Boris Johnson
  Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (born 19 June 1964) is an American-born British Conservative Party politician and journalist, who has been the elected Mayor of London since 2008. He was previously the Member of Parliament for Henley and editor of The Spectator magazine.
  Johnson was educated at Primrose Hill Primary School, the European School of Brussels, Ashdown House School, Eton College, and Balliol College, Oxford, where he read Literae Humaniores. He began his career in journalism with The Times, and later moved on to The Daily Telegraph where he became assistant editor. He was appointed editor of The Spectator in 1999. In the 2001 general election he was elected to the House of Commons and became one of the most conspicuous politicians in the country. He has also written several books.
  Under Michael Howard, Johnson briefly served on the Conservative front bench as the Shadow Minister for the Arts from April 2004 until November 2004. When David Cameron was elected leader of the Conservative Party in 2005, Johnson was re-appointed to the front bench as Shadow Minister for Higher Education and resigned as editor of The Spectator.
  
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• Brian Sewell
  Brian Sewell (born 15 July 1931) is an English art critic and media personality. He writes for the London Evening Standard and is noted for artistic conservatism and his acerbic view of the Turner Prize and conceptual art. Sewell has been described as "Britain's most famous and controversial art critic".
  The illegitimate son of the composer Peter Warlock, who died seven months before he was born, Sewell was brought up in Kensington, London, and was educated at the independent Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School in Hampstead, northwest London. Offered a place to read history at Oxford, Sewell chose instead to enter the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, where he was tutored by Anthony Blunt and became his close friend. Sewell graduated in 1957 and worked at Christie's auction house, specialising in Old Master paintings and drawings. After leaving Christie's he became an art dealer. He completed his National Service in the Royal Army Service Corps, in which he was commissioned. He has since been a regular commentator on the ITV series Bad Lad's Army, offering insight into 1950s military life.^{[citation needed]}
  
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• Charles Campion
  Charles Campion is a food critic, who has written in The Times, The Independent and the Evening Standard.^{[citation needed]} He has also appeared on Celebrity MasterChef.
  
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  Charles Dunstone
  Charles Dunstone (born 21 November 1964) is the chairman and (with David Ross) co-founder, in 1989, of mobile phone retailer The Carphone Warehouse and chairman of the TalkTalk Group.
  Dunstone was born in 1964, in the town of Saffron Walden in Essex.
  Dunstone was educated at Uppingham School, an independent school for boys (now co-educational), in the market town of Uppingham in Rutland, in Central England.
  Charles Dunstone first began selling mobile phones out of his flat on Marylebone Road in 1989. He was 25 years old and had £6000 of savings to start his business having previous worked at NEC as a sales executive.
  It was whilst working at NEC that he first spotted the potential of mobile phones and the future of mobile communications. At that time, handsets were large, cumbersome and mainly purchased by big business and large organisations. Corporate clients were well catered for but small businesses, the self-employed and general public had nowhere to go. Dunstone realised that mobile phones would eventually become ubiquitous and named his company The Carphone Warehouse (CPW) to serve this larger market.
  
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• Charles Wintour
  Charles Vere Wintour, CBE, MBE (Mil) (18 May 1917 – 4 November 1999) was a British newspaper editor and was the father of Editor-in-Chief of Vogue magazine, Anna Wintour.
  Wintour wrote articles for the Radio Times while he was at Oundle School, and won a prize awarded by the Daily Mail. He completed his education at Peterhouse, University of Cambridge, where studied English and History and briefly edited Granta with Eric Hobsbawm.
  After university, Wintour took a job in advertising, but left at the start of World War II to join the Royal Norfolk Regiment. During the war, he was awarded the military MBE, the Croix de Guerre and the Bronze Star.
  In 1946, Wintour became a leader writer for the Evening Standard. He was soon promoted to political editor, then moved to the Sunday Express as assistant editor. He returned to the Standard as deputy editor, during which period he convinced Lord Beaverbrook to launch the Evening Standard Awards for theatre.
  Wintour became managing editor of the Daily Express in 1958, then in 1959 moved back to the Standard as editor. During this period, he had five children, of whom two: Anna and Patrick later became prominent journalists.
  
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  David Cameron
  David William Donald Cameron (pronunciation: /ˈkæmərən/; born 9 October 1966) is the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, First Lord of the Treasury, Minister for the Civil Service and Leader of the Conservative Party. He represents Witney as its Member of Parliament (MP).
  Cameron studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) at Oxford, gaining a first class honours degree. He then joined the Conservative Research Department and became Special Adviser to Norman Lamont, and then to Michael Howard. He was Director of Corporate Affairs at Carlton Communications for seven years.
  He was defeated in his first candidacy for Parliament at Stafford in 1997, but was elected in 2001 as the Member of Parliament for the Oxfordshire constituency of Witney. He was promoted to the Opposition front bench two years later, and rose rapidly to become head of policy co-ordination during the 2005 general election campaign. With a public image of a youthful, moderate candidate who would appeal to young voters, he won the Conservative leadership election in 2005.
  
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  Evgeny Lebedev
  Evgeny Alexandrovich Lebedev (born 8 May 1980) is the Russian-born British chairman and owner of both Evening Standard Ltd,, publisher of the Evening Standard newspaper, which he bought in January 2009, and of Independent Print Ltd, publisher of the Independent and Independent on Sunday, which he bought in March 2010.
  He is the son of Russian tycoon Alexander Lebedev.
  Under Evgeny Lebedev's tenure, the Evening Standard became the first large-circulation newspaper in Britain to go free, its circulation tripling to 600,000 copies.
  Lebedev's other business interests include the Sake no Hana Japanese restaurant in St James’s Street, London, designed by Kengo Kuma, and the Palazzo Terra Nova boutique hotel in Umbria, Italy. He is also credited as being the designer and co-owner of the Hush restaurant in Mayfair, and the co-owner, along with Ian McKellen and Sean Mathias, of The Grapes pub in London.
  Lebedev is a supporter of the Arts and chairs the Evening Standard Theatre Awards.
  He is a sponsor of the Moscow Art Theatre and the Anton Chekhov Yalta Theatre , which was built in 1883, renovated in 1908, and reconstructed in 2008 "with the financial support of A.E. Lebedev".
  
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• Geordie Greig
  Geordie Greig (born 1960 London) is a British journalist and newspaper editor. He is the editor of the Mail on Sunday newspaper. He attended Eton College and St Peter's College, Oxford.
  Greig worked for the Kentish Mercury newspaper, the Daily Mail and Sunday Today, before joining the Sunday Times in 1987. He became the editor of Tatler magazine in 1999.
  He was appointed editor for the Evening Standard in February 2009. This announcement followed the announcement on 21 January 2009 by the Daily Mail group that its newspaper division, Associated Newspapers Ltd, had agreed the sale of a majority interest in the Evening Standard for a nominal sum to Evening Press Ltd, a company formed by Alexander Lebedev and his son Evgeny Lebedev and owned by Lebedev Holdings Ltd. His first step as Evening Standard editor was to launch a series of "Sorry" advertisements across London, after market research showed the paper was deemed too negative and complacent about London under former editor Veronica Wadley's leadership, a move considered to be extremely daring.
  
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• John Leese
  John Leese (1930 – 1991) was a British newspaper editor.
  Leese studied at Bishop Vesey's Grammar School. He edited the Coventry Evening Telegraph in the mid-1960s, then moved to London to work on the Evening News. The paper closed in 1980, and Leese moved to New York and produced the SoHo News for a year.
  He returned to the UK to launch You magazine for the Mail on Sunday, then in 1986 became Editor of the Evening Standard. He resigned early in 1991 due to illness, and died in September of that year. His son, Mike Leese, was also a news editor at the Evening Standard.
  
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  Ken Livingstone
  Kenneth Robert "Ken" Livingstone (born 17 June 1945) is a British Labour Party politician who has twice held the leading political role in London local government, first as the Leader of the Greater London Council from 1981 until the Council was abolished in 1986, and then as the first elected Mayor of London from the creation of the office in 2000 until 2008. He also served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Brent East from 1987 to 2001. He stood unsuccessfully as the Labour Party candidate in the London mayoral elections of 2008 and 2012.
  Born into a working class family in Lambeth, he first joined the Labour Party in 1968 and was elected to represent Norwood at the Greater London Council in 1973, before moving to represent Hackney North and Stoke Newington in 1977, and then to Paddington in 1981, the same year he also became the Leader of the Council itself. In 1999, Livingstone sought the Labour nomination to be the first elected Mayor of London, although his candidacy was opposed by then-Prime Minister Tony Blair. Despite losing the Labour candidacy to Frank Dobson, Livingstone contested the 2000 election successfully as an independent candidate regardless, which led to his expulsion from the Labour Party.
  
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• Kieron Quirke
  Kieron Quirke is an English writer, journalist, musician and theatre critic residing in London.
  Quirke was educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham and the Junior Royal Academy of Music where he won the Dame Ruth Railton Prize in 1997.
  Quirke attended Merton College, Oxford. Notable for his activities in theatre and journalism, he was Vice-President of the Oxford Union and left with a Double First in Classics.
  FT Young Critic of the Year in 2003, Quirke writes on the theatre and opera for the Evening Standard, having also written for The Times,Time Out, and Metro.
  Quirke writes for television with surrealist playwright Robin French. Their output has included episodes of children's drama I Dream, which starred members of the band S Club 8, work for the comedy sketch show, Man Stroke Woman and sitcom pilot Bash, both aired on BBC Three. Bash was directed by Dominic Brigstocke and produced by Adam Bromley.
  Quirke and French worked on Roommates, a new sitcom which premiered on ABC Family on 23 March 2009. Their eight-part drama Trinity appeared on British television from September 2009. Each has been nominated amongst the Hot Shot Writers of 2008 by Broadcast magazine.
  
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• Louis Kirby
  Louis Kirby (30 November 1928–14 October 2006) was a British newspaper editor.
  Kirby was born in Liverpool and grew up in Coalbrookdale. His first job was as a reporter on the Wolverhampton Express and Star, then in 1949 he moved to Bermuda where he worked at The Royal Gazette. In 1951 he returned to Britain to work as a freelance, then joined the Daily Mail in 1953. He became the Mail's lobby correspondent, then in 1962 became Chief Reporter with the Daily Sketch, and in 1969 was promoted to Executive Editor.
  In 1971, the Sketch merged with the Mail. Sketch editor David English was appointed as editor of the merged newspaper, leaving Kirby as acting editor of the last editions of the Sketch. He then moved to join English, becoming Deputy Editor of the Mail.
  Kirby became editor of the London daily, the Evening News in 1974, and completed its transformation from broadsheet to tabloid. Negotiations to merge the Evening News with its competitor, the Evening Standard began in 1976, but failed to make progress due to a dispute over who should edit a merged paper. Circulation of the Evening News continued to fall under Kirby's editorship, and in 1979, the paper stopped publishing a Saturday edition.
  
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• Max Hastings
  Sir Max Hugh Macdonald Hastings, FRSL (born 28 December 1945) is a British journalist, editor, historian and author. He is the son of Macdonald Hastings, the noted British journalist and war correspondent, and Anne Scott-James, sometime editor of Harper's Bazaar.
  Hastings was educated at Charterhouse School and University College, Oxford, which he left after a year. In 1967-68 he spent a year in the United States as a Fellow of the World Press Institute, following which he published his first book, an account of the US in its tumultuous election year America 1968: The Fire This Time. He became a foreign correspondent and reported from more than sixty countries and eleven wars for BBC TV's 24 hours current affairs programme and for the Evening Standard in London. Hastings was the first journalist to enter the liberated Port Stanley during the 1982 Falklands War. After ten years as editor and then editor-in-chief of The Daily Telegraph, he returned to the Evening Standard as editor in 1996 until his retirement in 2002. He received a knighthood in 2002. He was inducted into the elite political dining society known as The Other Club in 1993.
  
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  Michael Foot
  Michael Mackintosh Foot, FRSL, PC (23 July 1913 – 3 March 2010) was a British Labour Party politician, journalist and author, who was a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1945 to 1955 and from 1960 until 1992. He was deputy leader of the Labour Party from 1976 to 1980, and later became the Leader of the Opposition from 1980 to 1983.
  Associated with the Labour left for most of his career, he was a supporter of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and British withdrawal from the European Economic Community. He was first promoted to Cabinet as Employment secretary under Harold Wilson in 1974, and later served as Leader of the House of Commons under James Callaghan. A passionate orator, he was Labour leader at the 1983 general election when the party received its lowest share of the vote since 1918.
  His parallel career as a journalist included appointments as editor of Tribune, on several occasions, and the Evening Standard newspaper. Among the books he authored are Guilty Men (an attack on Neville Chamberlain and others for the policy of appeasement), a biography of Jonathan Swift (The Pen and the Sword, 1957) and a biography of Aneurin Bevan.
  
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• Paul Dacre
  Paul Michael Dacre (born 14 November 1948) is a British journalist and current editor of the British newspaper the Daily Mail. He is also editor-in-chief of the Mail group titles, which also includes The Mail on Sunday. He is also a director of the Daily Mail and General Trust plc and was a member of the Press Complaints Commission from 1999 to 2008. He left in order to become chairman of the PCC's Editors’ Code of Practice Committee from April 2008.
  Dacre's father, Peter Dacre, was a prominent journalist on the Sunday Express whose work included show business features. Nigel Dacre, another son, was editor of ITV's news programmes from 1995 to 2002. Paul Dacre was educated at University College School, an independent school in Hampstead, on a state scholarship, and grew up in the London suburb of Arnos Grove in Enfield. In his school holidays, Dacre worked as a messenger at the Sunday Express, and during his pre-university gap year as a trainee in the Daily Express. From 1967 he read English at the University of Leeds and during this period met his future wife, Kathleen, now a drama teacher.
  
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• Percy Cudlipp
  Percy Cudlipp (10 November 1905 – 5 November 1962), was a prominent Welsh journalist.
  
  He was born at 180 Arabella Street, Cardiff, and was the brother of Hugh Cudlipp (later Baron Cudlipp) and Reginald Cudlipp, both notable journalists. Percy Cudlipp began his journalistic career with the South Wales Echo. He became editor of the Evening Standard in 1933 and of the Daily Herald in 1940, and was at one time the youngest editor in Fleet Street.
  In 1953, Cudlipp resigned the editorship of the Daily Herald. Shortly afterwards, he was approached by the team setting up the New Scientist and became the first editor of the new magazine in 1956. He died at his home, 11 Falmouth House, Clarendon Place, London.
  
  
  
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• Percy Elland
  Percy Elland (7 October 1908–3 March 1960) was an English newspaper editor.
  Born in Doncaster, Elland attended Doncaster Grammar School before entering journalism. In 1952, he became editor of the Evening Standard, serving until 1959, but making few changes to the title. He then became a director and managing editor of the Standard, but died the following year.
  
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  Robert Knox
  Robert Knox FRSE FRCSE MWS (4 September 1791 – 20 December 1862) was a Scottish surgeon, anatomist and zoologist. He was the most popular lecturer in anatomy in Edinburgh before his involvement in the Burke and Hare body-snatching case. This ruined his career, and a later move to London did not improve matters. His later pessimistic view of humanity contrasted with his youthful attachment to the ideas of Étienne Geoffroy.
  Knox's ideas on anthropology and ethnology are now considered racist, notably his view that Anglo-Saxons are innately superior to other peoples. This has harmed his reputation, though he continued to reject natural theology, and believed that there was a blood relationship between all living things.
  Robert Knox was born the eighth child of Mary Sherer (alt. 'Schrerer') and Robert Knox (d. 1812), a teacher of mathematics and natural philosophy at Heriot's Hospital in Edinburgh. He was educated at the High School.
  In 1810, he joined medical classes in Edinburgh. The only recorded event of his university years was his just failing the anatomy examination. Knox joined the extramural Anatomy class of the famous John Barclay. Barclay was an anatomist of the highest distinction, and perhaps the greatest anatomical teacher in Britain at that time. Redoubling his efforts, Knox passed very competently the second time around.
  
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• Sarah Sands
  Sarah Sands (born Sarah Harvey, 3 June 1961) is a British journalist and author who is currently the editor of the London Evening Standard.
  The sister of Kit Hesketh-Harvey of musical duo Kit and The Widow, Sands was born on 3rd June, 1962 in Tunbridge Wells in Kent, in South East England.
  Sands was educated at Kent College, then a Methodist (now interdenominational) boarding independent school for girls (not to be confused with the boys' boarding school of the same name in Canterbury), in the village of Pembury (near Tunbridge Wells) in Kent in South East England, followed by Goldsmiths College at the University of London.
  Sands trained on The Sevenoaks Courier as a news reporter, before moving to the Evening Standard, initially as editor of the "Londoner's Diary", before taking further posts as features editor and associate editor.
  Sands joined The Daily Telegraph in 1996 as deputy editor, under Charles Moore, later assuming responsibility for the Saturday edition.
  Sands was appointed the first female editor of The Sunday Telegraph in June 2005, succeeding Dominic Lawson. Her masterplan for the November 2005 relaunch of the paper was that it should be "like an iPod - full of your favourite things". In an abrupt move, after just eight months and 20 days in post, Sands was sacked as editor of the newspaper on 7 March 2006 and replaced by Patience Wheatcroft. Subsequently, many of her changes under her editorship were reversed (including changes to the title font).
  
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• Simon Jenkins
  Sir Simon David Jenkins (born 10 June 1943) is a British newspaper columnist and author, and since November 2008 has been chairman of the National Trust. He currently writes columns for both The Guardian and London's Evening Standard, and was previously a commentator for The Times, which he edited from 1990 to 1992. He was educated at Mill Hill School and St John's College, Oxford, where he read Philosophy, politics, and economics.
  A former editor of both The Times and the Evening Standard, he received a knighthood for services to journalism in the 2004 New Year honours.
  He married the American actress Gayle Hunnicutt in 1978; the couple separated in 2008.
  After graduating from Oxford, Jenkins worked initially at Country Life magazine, before joining the Times Educational Supplement and then editing the Sunday Times Insight pages. From 1976 to 1978 he was editor of the Evening Standard, before moving to become political editor of the Economist. He edited The Times from 1990 to 1992, but since then has primarily worked as a columnist.
  
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• Stanley Lees Giffard
  Stanley Lees Giffard (1788 – November 1858) was founder and first editor of a London newspaper, The Standard.
  Stanley Lees Giffard was brought up in Ireland, the son of John Giffard and Sarah Morton of Dromartin Castle. His father, a Captain in the Dublin Militia, became Accountant-General of Customs and High Sheriff of the County of Dublin.
  Stanley Giffard was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, and became a barrister. He was later awarded an honorary degree of Doctor of Law (LL.D). His first marriage, in 1814, was to Susanna Meares Moran, daughter of Francis Moran, a Justice of the Peace in Ireland. His second marriage, in 1830, was to Mary Ann Giffard, daughter of a Lieutenant in the Royal Navy. The children of his first marriage were Sara Lees Giffard, John Walter de Longueville Giffard, Reverend Francis Osbern Giffard, and Hardinge Stanley Giffard the 1st Earl of Halsbury. From his second marriage he had one son, Henry Stanley Giffard; and one daughter, Mary Lees Fane Giffard.
  
  
  
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• Stewart Steven
  Stewart Steven (30 September 1935–19 January 2004) was a British newspaper editor who grew circulation. His career was marked by three major clunkers. He was personally generous to friends and family.
  Born in Hamburg, Steven grew up in England, becoming a journalist with the Central Press, then the Western Daily Press, and from 1963 with the Daily Express. At the Express, he was a political reporter, diplomatic correspondent and finally foreign editor, before becoming an assistant editor of the Daily Mail in 1972, and associate editor in 1974.
  In 1972 the Daily Express reported a "world exclusive" that Martin Borman, Hitler's deputy, was living in South America. After six days, the paper realized it was a hoax. Steven left for the Daily Mail. In 1977, he took responsibility for the publication of a false story claiming that British Leyland had a fund to pay bribes.
  In 1982, he became editor of the Mail on Sunday, serving until 1992, when he became editor of the Evening Standard. In 1995, he printed a story critical of Tony Blair under the name of Bryan Gould, a former member of the Labour Party's shadow cabinet; in fact, Conservative Party Home Secretary Michael Howard's teenaged son had written the article. Steven retired later in the year, serving as the last Chairman of Punch and on the board of the London Film Commission.
  
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• Sydney Elliott
  Sydney Robert Elliott (31 August 1902–9 October 1987) was a British newspaper editor.
  Born on Clydeside, Elliott became involved in the co-operative movement. In the late 1920s he moved to Manchester to become editor of the monthly co-operative journal The Millgate Monthly. In 1929, the Sunday newspaper Reynold's News was bought by the Co-operative Press, and Elliott was appointed as its editor. He worked on updating the appearance of the paper, and appointed well-known figures such as H. N. Brailsford and Hamilton Fyfe as columnists. In 1937, he wrote a comprehensive account of the movement, England: Cradle of Co-operation, while he also launched the United Peace Alliance to campaign against Franco in the Spanish Civil War. This soon became the focus of unsuccessful attempts by communists and left-wing members of the Labour Party to create a popular front.
  In 1941 Elliott moved to London to work on the Evening Standard, then showing sympathy with radical causes under its editor, Michael Foot. He succeeded Foot as editor in 1943, but left in the run-up to the 1945 UK general election after owner Lord Beaverbrook began putting pressure on him to advocate a vote for the Conservative Party. He became Editorial Advisor at the Daily Mirror, where he masterminded its campaign to support the Labour Party at the 1945 election. He later moved to supervise the Mirror's newspaper and radio operations in Australia, but returned to become General Manager of the Daily Herald in 1952.
  
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  Tony Blair
  Anthony Charles Lynton Blair (born 6 May 1953) is a British Labour Party politician who served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2 May 1997 to 27 June 2007. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Sedgefield from 1983 to 2007 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1994 to 2007. He resigned from all of these positions in June 2007.
  Blair was elected Leader of the Labour Party in the leadership election of July 1994, following the sudden death of his predecessor, John Smith. Under his leadership, the party used the phrases "New Labour" and "New Socialism" to define its policy, and moved away from its support of state socialism since the 1960s and created a new version of the ethical socialism that was last pursued by Clement Attlee. Critics of Blair claim that "New Labour" did not adhere to socialism as claimed, and that it effectively advocated capitalism. Blair subsequently led Labour to a landslide victory in the 1997 general election. At 43 years old, he became the youngest Prime Minister since Lord Liverpool in 1812. In the first years of the New Labour government, Blair's government implemented a number of 1997 manifesto pledges, introducing the minimum wage, Human Rights Act and Freedom of Information Act, and carrying out devolution, establishing the Scottish Parliament, the National Assembly for Wales, and the Northern Ireland Assembly.
  
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• Veronica Wadley
  Veronica Judith Colleton Wadley (born 28 February 1952) is a British journalist, and former editor of London's Evening Standard from February 2002 to February 2009, during which time it was owned by Associated Newspapers. She was the first female editor of the title. After Alexander Lebedev acquired the Standard in 2009, he replaced her with former Tatler editor Geordie Greig.
  Wadley was born in Chelsea and educated at the independent Francis Holland School in central London and at Benenden School in Kent. She was employed by Condé Nast (1971-74), working on Vogue, and subsequently the staff of The Telegraph colour magazine (1978-81) and the Mail on Sunday for five years before rejoining The Daily Telegraph in 1986, being appointed assistant editor in 1989. She has also worked on the Daily Mail.
  During her time at the Standard, the newspaper was particularly critical of the then London Mayor, Ken Livingstone. This came to a head in the run-up to the 2008 London mayoral election, in which Wadley's newspaper aggressively attacked Livingstone each day. According to articles in The Guardian and Time Out London, she was strongly influenced by the need to renew Associated Newspaper's multi-million pound contract to deliver the Metro free paper in London Underground stations in 2010, a decision within the gift of the Mayor. A few months after Wadley left the Standard, the publication launched its "Sorry" promotion. "London is laughing at this ludicrous campaign", she claimed.The Guardian reported "The market research evidently discovered that Londoners considered the Standard to be too negative, not celebratory enough and guilty of failing to cater for the capital's needs. A great city with great facilities was being persistently talked down."
  
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