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 apology could remedy it". The "Daily Express" has a reputation for printing conspiracy theories about the death of Diana, Princess of Wales as front-page news, earning it the nickname the "Daily Ex-Princess"; this has been satirised in "Private Eye" as the "Diana Express" or the "Di'ly Express", and has been attributed to Desmond's friendship with regular "Eye" target Mohamed Fayed. In 2006 and 2007, these front-page stories consistently appeared on Mondays, and ended only when the paper focused instead on the Madeleine McCann story (see below). Even on 7 July 2006, the anniversary of the London bombings (used by most