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
Kimberley Daily Bulletin did purchase the "Nelson Daily News" and "Prince Rupert Daily News" in 2010, and ended up closing them days later. It already owned competing weeklies in both Nelson and Prince Rupert. Although it also owns a competing weekly in Cranbrook, the "Kootenay Advertiser", Black purchased the "Daily Townsman" and "Daily Bulletin" from Kendall a year later, promising that both the weekly and the dailies "will continue to run under their current business plan and we anticipate few changes". Kimberley Daily Bulletin The Kimberley Daily Bulletin is the local daily newspaper of Kimberley, British Columbia, Canada. The "Daily Bulletin", published Mondays