Fred Basset Fred Basset Fred Basset is a comic strip about a male basset hound. The cartoon was created by Scottish cartoonist Alex Graham and published first in the "Daily Mail" on 8 July 1963. It has since been syndicated around the world. Fred's cartoon strips are renamed as "Wurzel" in Germany, "Lillo il Cane Saggio" (Lillo the wise dog) in Italy, "Lorang" in Norway, "Laban" in Sweden and "Retu", "Pitko" or "Koiraskoira" in Finland. "Fred Basset" has been published in the United Kingdom newspaper "Daily Mail", and latterly "The Mail On Sunday", from 1963 to the present. Alex Graham based Fred
Daily Mail National Film Awards Daily Mail National Film Awards The National Film Awards (AKA Daily Mail National Film Awards, Daily Mail Film Awards, British Film Oscars, Britain's Oscars, Silver Star) were the first ever national film awards held in Britain. They were sponsored by the Daily Mail newspaper with readers voting at cinemas across the country, for best Actor, Actress and Film. The inaugural event was held at the Dorchester Hotel, London in 1946. The first awards were awarded to James Mason and Margaret Lockwood for most outstanding British actor and actress during the war years. The award is seen as the predecessor to