Toby Twirl Tourtel, an assistant editor of the "Daily Express". Tourtel devised Rupert Bear shortly after the end of World War I, in 1920, when the "Daily Express" was in competition with "The Daily Mail" and its then popular comic strip “Teddy Tail” (featuring a mouse called “Teddy Tail”), as well as with the comic strip “Pip, Squeak and Wilfred” (respectively, these are the names of a dog, penguin, and rabbit) in the "Daily Mirror". Each panel of Tourtel's comic strip story was accompanied by a narrative in rhymed verse. These are the very first ("Daily Express", 8 November 1920): The title
Nottingham Daily Express Nottingham Daily Express The Nottingham Daily Express was a local newspaper published in Nottingham between 1860 and 1918. It was a radical, Liberal and strongly Nonconformist newspaper. It was published from 4 January 1860 to 6 April 1918. It continued as the "Nottingham Journal and Express" 8 April 1918 – 5 September 1953 (incorporating the long dormant copyright of the "Nottingham Journal" which had been purchased from William Bradshaw in 1887). It was amalgamated with the "Nottingham Guardian" and subsequently published as the "Guardian Journal". The "Nottingham Daily Express" was based in a building on Upper Parliament Street in Nottingham