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Ben Devlin

After periods working in journalism including a stint at the British newspaper the Daily Telegraph, he entered television broadcasting and worked for the BBC, Rapido TV, Clive James's Watchmaker Films, Graham Norton's So TV and Visual Voodoo, the entertainment arm of ITN.

Bernard Hollowood

He was also a regular contributor of articles or cartoons to many other publications, including The Times, Geographical Magazine, Socialist Commentary, the Surrey Advertiser, News Chronicle, The Cricketer, London Opinion, The New Yorker, the Evening Standard, and the Daily and Sunday Telegraph.

Catholic laity

One of the best known in England is the London-based Daily Telegraph blog run by the journalist Damian Thompson.

Claude George Drummond Hay

He died in Sevastopol while working as a special correspondent in southern Russia for the Daily Telegraph.

Counterknowledge

Counterknowledge: How We Surrendered to Conspiracy Theories, Quack Medicine, Bogus Science and Fake History is a polemic by British writer and Daily Telegraph journalist Damian Thompson which examines the dissemination and reception of fringe theories.

Cumberland Grove Country Club

The launch was highly publicized throughout Australia by Network 10, Nine Network, SBS, the ABC, The Daily Telegraph and the Sydney Morning Herald.

Dale Farm

The Daily Telegraph newspaper reported that "new evidence has emerged" that some residents have cultural roots in the town of Rathkeale, County Limerick, Ireland, and some own property there.

David Andrew Smith

In January 2008, The Daily Telegraph identified him as one of the most influential Britons in America.

Douglas Hogg

When the Daily Telegraph in 2009 exposed that Hogg had claimed upwards of £2,000 of taxpayers' money for the purposes of cleaning the moat around his country estate, Kettlethorpe Hall, he became one of the most prominent illustrations used by the media to portray the extent of the expenses scandal, though Hogg always maintained that the allegation was untrue.

Faceless men

It was first used in 1963 by Alan Reid, a journalist working for Sir Frank Packer's conservative Sydney Daily Telegraph, referring to the 36 members of the Australian Labor Party's Federal Conference, which at that time decided the party's election policy.

Gill Pyrah

She has worked for the Daily Telegraph, been a guest presenter on the Radio 4 programme Midweek and chaired the literary quiz Slightly Foxed on BBC Radio 4.

Harold Soref

On 30 September 1972, the Daily Telegraph remarked that "Mr. Harold Soref is nothing if not consistent", commenting that when an all-party delegation began a tour of Red China, he left defiantly for Taiwan.

Jeremy Wolfenden

Wolfenden was recruited by the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) before becoming the Daily Telegraph foreign correspondent in Moscow where he indulged in his twin passions for sex and alcohol and was eventually compromised by the KGB.

John King, Baron King of Wartnaby

His interests included directorships at the Daily Telegraph, Spectator, headhunting company Norman Broadbent and engineering firm Short Brothers.

Jonathan Croall

During this time he wrote about education, the arts, health, history, and the environment for The Guardian, the Daily Telegraph, the Sunday Times, New Society and Vole magazine.

Journey Without Maps

In 2009 the journey was retraced by the English writer and journalist Tim Butcher, former Africa correspondent for the Daily Telegraph and author of the bestselling book on the Democratic Republic of Congo, Blood River: A Journey to Africa's Broken Heart (2007).

KIMT

In 1980, it was sold again to the Shott family of Bluefield, West Virginia and their Daily Telegraph Printing Company.

Lutfur Rahman

Andrew Gilligan in a Channel 4 Dispatches documentary in March 2010, and in a series of Daily Telegraph blogs and articles, accused Rahman of achieving the council leadership with the help of the Islamic Forum of Europe.

Michael ffolkes

Ffolkes contributed to such newspapers and magazines as Strand, Lilliput, the Daily Telegraph, The Spectator, the Sunday Telegraph, Playboy, Private Eye, the New Yorker, the Reader's Digest, Krokodil, and Esquire.

Paul Hoggart

He has also written for The Guardian, Observer, The Independent, Daily Telegraph, Radio Times, Broadcast, The Stage, Saga and Young Performer magazines, and the screenwriters’ website twelvepoint.com.

Paul Kingsnorth

In recent years, he has written for or contributed to the Guardian, Independent, Daily Telegraph, Daily Express, Le Monde, New Statesman, Ecologist, New Internationalist, Big Issue, Adbusters, BBC Wildlife, openDemocracy, BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio 2, BBC Four, ITV and Resonance FM.

Ricky George

George writes a weekly non-league column for the Daily Telegraph and co-presented 'Matchday with Motty' for BBC Radio Five Live with the legendary football commentator John Motson.

Rose George

In 1999, she moved to London and began a freelance career, and has since written for the Independent on Sunday, Arena, the Financial Times, Daily Telegraph, Details and others.

Sara Fulgoni

Her signature role is perhaps Carmen the Daily Telegraph referring to her as "the Carmen of the Decade" a role which she has sung for the English National Opera, Welsh National Opera, Geneva Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Toulouse Capitole, and at the Beijing Music Festival.

Stan Gebler Davies

Stanley Gebler Davies (Dublin, 16 July 1943 - Dalkey, Ireland, 23 June 1994) was a journalist with the Irish Independent as well as with various British magazines (including Punch, The Evening Standard, The Daily Telegraph and The Spectator).

Sydney Deamer

He had a distinguished career in civilian life as a journalist in England and Australia and as a newspaper editor for the Sydney Daily Telegraph under the new proprietor Sir Frank Packer between 1936 and 1939.

T. P. O'Connor

In 1870, he moved to London, and was appointed a sub-editor on the Daily Telegraph, principally on account of the utility of his mastery of French and German in reportage of the Franco-Prussian War.

The Pursuit of Laughter

Writing in the Daily Telegraph reviewer Duncan Fallowell questioned Mosley's contradictions between her personal and political life.

University of Sydney

The main campus has been ranked in the top 10 of the world's most beautiful universities by the British Daily Telegraph, The Huffington Post and Disney Pixar, among others such as Oxford and Cambridge and is spread across the inner-city suburbs of Camperdown and Darlington.

Walter Tracy

His typeface Jubilee, designed to be more robust than Stanley Morison's 1931 font Times New Roman, was adopted by a number of newspapers, and his Telegraph Modern was used by the Daily Telegraph from 1969.

White floral Givenchy dress of Audrey Hepburn

A poll by Debenhams, published in the Daily Telegraph, voted it the second most iconic dress of all time.


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1931 Hawke's Bay earthquake

The Napier Daily Telegraph had recently celebrated its diamond jubilee with an article describing Napier as "the Nice of the Pacific".

Baron Burnham

Levy-Lawson was the son of Joseph Moses Levy, who acquired the Daily Telegraph only months after its founding.

Bill Edrich

On 12 August 1941 he participated in a low-level daylight attack by Bristol Blenheim bombers against power stations in the Cologne area, described by the Daily Telegraph as "the RAF's most audacious and dangerous low-level bombing raid".

Brumbrella

Despite having been retired in 2001, the Brumbrella remains a point of reference for the efficient covering of cricket pitches: Derek Pringle in The Daily Telegraph and Mike Selvey in The Guardian both favourably compared the efficient performance of the groundstaff at Kandy during England's Test match against Sri Lanka in December 2007 to it.

Carole Morin

Patrick Gale writing in the Daily Telegraph called it a "witty recreation of the fierce ambitions and divided loyalties of childhood".

Charles Rangeley-Wilson

He is known for his writing in the periodicals The Field in the UK (in 2001 he won the Periodical Publishers Association Specialist Writer of the Year Award for his work in that magazine) and Gray's Sporting Journal in the USA, as well as in newspapers such as The Times and The Daily Telegraph.

Chris Salewicz

Along with other NMEs illumini (Tony Parsons and Julie Burchill) of that period Chris’s work soon found its way into serious main stream publications the Sunday Times, the Independent, the Daily Telegraph, Conde Nast Traveller, Q, Mojo and Time Out, he also wrote for The Face magazine.

Derek Wanless

A further Honorary Doctorate was awarded by Coventry University in November 2007, which prompted a Daily Telegraph article questioning the value of such awards

Edwin Arnold

It was he who, on behalf of the proprietors of the Daily Telegraph in conjunction with the New York Herald, arranged the journey of H.M. Stanley to Africa to discover the course of the Congo River, and Stanley named after him a mountain to the north-east of Albert Edward Nyanza.

Gillie Potter

The son, J. H. B. Peel, became a Daily Telegraph writer on country matters.

Gitta Sereny

From the mid-sixties and throughout the 1970s she wrote extensively for The Daily Telegraph Magazine under the editorship of John Anstey.

Holy Smoke

Damian Thompson's conservative Catholic blog for The Daily Telegraph

John Freeman-Mitford, 1st Earl of Redesdale

In 1874, appeared 'Reasoning on some Points of Doctrine,' and in 1875 Redesdale entered into a controversy with Cardinal Manning in the 'Daily Telegraph' on the subject of communion in both kinds.

Julian Bovis

His work on the 7 July 2005 London bombings won the Daily Telegraph the European Newspaper Design Award for news coverage.

Manning control

29 Apr 2002 Michael Smith, defence correspondent of The Daily Telegraph, and Tom Newton Dunn, defence editor of the Daily Mirror and Andrew Gilligan from the Radio 4 Today Programme, publicized the case of Cpl Paul Biddiss.

Mark Lancaster

In the 2005-10 Parliament Lancaster was left unscathed by the expenses investigation, he did not feature in the Daily Telegraph's investigation and was one of a minority of MPs not asked to pay back any money as a result of the Sir Thomas Legg Enquiry.

Matthew Porter

Educated at Wanstead High School, he studied Politics and Modern Languages at the University of East Anglia and became a regular reporter and commentator on Capital Gold Sport and BBC London radio as well as working on a freelance basis for numerous national newspapers, including The Sun, Daily Telegraph and News Of The World.

Neil Heywood

According to The Daily Telegraph of 17 April 2012, UK Prime Minister David Cameron would meet Chinese publicity department head Li Changchun to discuss the Heywood case.

Philip Stephens

Philip Pembroke Stephens (1894–1937), journalist, foreign correspondent for the Daily Express and the Daily Telegraph

Simon Beckett

The books and protagonist were inspired when Beckett visited the "Body Farm" (by its official name: the University of Tennessee Anthropological Research Facility, founded by forensic anthropology pioneer Dr Bill Bass) in 2002, doing research for an article for the Daily Telegraph.

Younus Khan

On 31 August 2010, the Daily Telegraph in its news article mentioned that Younus Khan was associated with alleged match-fixer Mazhar Majeed.

Zaka Ullah Bhangoo

After the crash, The Daily Telegraph reported that Osman Güneş, the Turkish interior minister, claimed that the pair were being trailed by the MİT, Turkey's intelligence organization.