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unusual facts about Mirror Group



Bankole Timothy

The then head of the Mirror Group, Cecil King, who was responsible for starting this Ghanaian paper, felt that Timothy was ideally suited for this particular post.

Ellis Watson

For the proceeding three years, he was the Managing Director of Mirror Group Newspapers - responsible for some five national and 240 regional newspapers.


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Ari Ben-Menashe

Ben-Menashe claimed that Robert Maxwell, then owner of Mirror Group newspapers in the UK, was a Mossad agent, and that Maxwell had tipped off the Israeli embassy in 1986 about Israeli nuclear technician Mordechai Vanunu, after Vanunu and a friend approached the Sunday Mirror and The Sunday Times in London with a story about Israel's nuclear capability.

Cecil King

Cecil Harmsworth King (1901–1987), owner of Mirror Group Newspapers, and later a director at the Bank of England