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
Hartlepool Mail a daily circulation of 14,198. Since then, the sales have dropped which has resulted in increases in the paper's cover price. As of December 2017, it has an average daily circulation of 4,183 making it the third lowest in regional newspaper daily sales in the UK. The newspaper has a strong online presence and, in 2012, their website averaged 121,000 unique users a month. The newspaper is where sports journalist and TV presenter Jeff Stelling began his career. Hartlepool Mail The Hartlepool Mail is a newspaper serving Hartlepool and the surrounding area. As of December 2017, it has an average