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 all the media titles in Desmond's Northern & Shell group, were excluded from the Press Complaints Commission after withholding payment. Lord Black, chairman of PressBof, the PCC's parent organisation, called this "a deeply regrettable decision". According to "Press Gazette", in December 2016 circulation figures showed gross sales of the "Daily Mail" were 1,491,264 compared to 391,626 for the "Daily Express". The full run of the "Daily Express" has been digitised and is available at UK Press Online. In September 2017, "Daily Mirror" publisher Trinity Mirror announced its interest in buying all of Express Newspapers from Desmond. The "Financial Times" called