Fred Basset on VHS. 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
Olney Daily Mail to Fortress Investment Group and renamed to GateHouse Media. Among newspapers noted as predecessors to the "Daily Mail" is "Olney Times", which was published weekly on Fridays and began circulation c. 1856. In November 1857, a note to readers of the Olney "Republican" indicated that they would henceforth receive "Olney Times" instead, indicating the termination of the former periodical. The slogan for "Olney Times" was "Eternal Vigilance is the Price of Liberty." Olney Daily Mail The Olney Daily Mail is an American daily newspaper published in Olney, Illinois, and covering Richland County. The newspaper does not publish a Sunday edition.