Sunday Mirror editor-in-chief and then editorial director of Mirror Group, where he pushed the daily title, the "Daily Mirror", to a circulation in excess of five million copies. Reflecting strongly prevailing cultural views across the papers across the generations, in 1952, the "Sunday Pictorial" ran a three-part series entitled "Evil Men" promising an "end to the conspiracy of silence" about homosexuality in Britain. "Most people know there are such things – 'pansies' – mincing, effeminate, young men who call themselves queers (...) but simple decent folk regard them as freaks and rarities." The "Sunday Pictorial" compared homosexuality to a "spreading fungus" that
The Comet (newspaper) 2016—since then Matt Adams has been acting editor. The paper was formed in May 1971 as the successor to the long-established "Hertfordshire Pictorial", a paid-for weekly whose three editions covered Letchworth and Baldock, Hitchin and Stevenage. The free paper was originally named the "Stevenage Sun", "Hitchin Sun" or "Letchworth Sun", depending on the edition. The "Comet" name was adopted after less than a month after the national newspaper "The Sun" threatened legal action. Subsequent attempts by the "Surrey Comet" to prevent the "Comet" name being used were seen off. The "Comet"s average circulation, counting all three editions together, was 66,791