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
Daily Express other newspapers to publish commemorations) the front page was given over to Diana. This tendency was also mocked on "Have I Got News for You" when on 6 November 2006, the day other papers reported the death sentence given to Saddam Hussein on their front pages, the "Express" led with "SPIES COVER UP DIANA 'MURDER'". According to "The Independent" "The Diana stories appear on Mondays because Sunday is often a quiet day." In February and March 2010 the paper returned to featuring Diana stories on the front page on Mondays. In September 2013, following an allegation raised by the estranged