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12 unusual facts about The Sunday Times


7 Valleys Pas de Calais

Depicted by The Sunday Times, UK, as Northern France’s best kept secret, the Seven Valleys is also called the Artois Valleys abounding in “rolling contours, as green and bushy as anything you will come across in Dordogne”.

Al Rockoff

On the morning of the city's fall, he was visiting the Preah Keth Melea hospital with New York Times reporter Sydney Schanberg and Jon Swain of The Sunday Times when they were arrested by a furious company of teenage Khmer Rouge soldiers.

Ben Baker

Ben Baker is an Australian photographer who has worked for clients such as The Sunday Times, New York, ESPN The Magazine, Time, Elle, and Fortune.

Carat UK

According to The Sunday Times, in 2013 the majority of Carat 357 workers are 21 to 34 years old.

Das Pop

The release featured remixes from French DJ SebastiAn and Yuksek, and was called a "monumental new single from the Belgian electro band" in the Culture section of UK newspaper The Sunday Times.

Kate Dimbleby

In 2012, her self-published album Beware of Young Girls: The Songs of Dory Previn, was listed by The Sunday Times as one of the top 10 jazz albums of the year.

Laurel Hill Coláiste

It recently came seventh in the overall Irish national school league table, published in the Irish edition of The Sunday Times (5 November 2006), highlighting the high percentage of pupils who go on to university level.

Les Haylen

On his return to Sydney in November, he became a journalist with The Sunday Times.

Midcounties Co-operative

The Society has been ranked in The Sunday Times Best 100 Companies To Work For list in 2011, 2012 and 2013.

Operation Clambake

The Sunday Times used Operation Clambake's resources while doing a January 2007 story on Narconon and its links to the Church of Scientology.

SACO Apartments

In addition to these awards, SACO have been awarded the "Best Property Provider" at Re:locate Awards two years running and are featured in The Sunday Times 100 Best Small Companies to Work For supplement.

Witanhurst

In September 2009 The Sunday Times erroneously stated that Witanhurst had been bought by Elena Baturina, the wife of the former Mayor of Moscow, Yuri Luzhkov, via an offshore front company.


2011 cash for influence scandal

Rupert Murdoch's The Sunday Times alleged that Adrian Severin, Ernst Strasser, Pablo Zalba Bidegain and Zoran Thaler tried to influence EU legislation in exchange for promised money.

A History of Christianity

Malcolm Muggeridge, writing in The New Statesman, described the book as 'masterly... combining great wealth of scholarship, with a vigorous, confident style," and Alan Brien in The Sunday Times called it " vivid, colourful, clear and often at once impassioned and witty.

Anne Robinson

Robinson joined The Sunday Times, and in 1970 the couple had a daughter, Emma Wilson, who is now a British radio disc jockey and has also hosted Scaredy Camp, a game show in the USA on the Nickelodeon network.

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.

Bishan MRT Station

The newspaper The Sunday Times ran an article debunking an urban legend associated with the station, along with an article featuring an account by a passenger who claimed that, while riding on a train passing through the station one morning in the early 1990s, she was groped by several unseen hands before passing out.

Bolton Lads and Girls Club

2013 - Edwards was also nominated for the 2013 Sunday Times and Sky Sports Sportswomen of the Year Award, eventually won by Christine Ohuruogu, the reigning 400m world champion and 2008 Olympic champion.

Colin McDowell

As senior fashion writer for The Sunday Times, in the 1990s and 2000s he became a familiar sight in the front row of fashion shows along with his contemporaries Anna Wintour and Suzy Menkes.

Colleen Egan

Egan, who has principally been employed as a print journalist by The Sunday Times, first established herself as an investigative journalist in 2000 when her exclusive interviews with terrorist Jack Roche were published in The Australian.

Daniel Whittle Harvey

Daniel Whittle Harvey (10 January 1786 – 24 February 1863) was a Radical English politician who founded The Sunday Times newspaper and was the first Commissioner of the City of London Police.

Duane Hudson

According to The Sunday Times, Ian Fleming used Hudson as a model for his character James Bond, although it has also been suggested that the character was modelled on his brother, Peter Fleming.

Eric Rhode

His writing on film appeared in Sight and Sound, The Listener, Encounter, The Observer; he contributed pieces on literature and art to the New Statesman and The Financial Times, while the New Society and The Times Literary Supplement published pieces on psychoanalytic topics, and occasional pieces ran in The Sunday Times.

Ipsos MORI

In May 2013 The Sunday Times reported that Ipsos MORI had negotiated an agreement with the EE mobile phone network to commercialise the data on that company’s 23 million subscribers.

Irwin Stelzer

who is the U.S. economic and business columnist for the Sunday Times, the Courier-Mail, and a contributing editor of the Weekly Standard.

Kari Herbert

After leaving school she studied Media & Design in Portsmouth, then went on to work as a fashion stylist for Japanese rock bands before becoming a travel writer and photographer for newspapers and magazines such as The Independent, The Sunday Times, The Daily Telegraph, Geographical and Traveller.

L.A. Confidentiel

L.A. Confidentiel: Les secrets de Lance Armstrong (L.A. Confidential: Lance Armstrong's Secrets) is a book by sports journalist Pierre Ballester and The Sunday Times sports correspondent David Walsh.

Phil Ashby

He has also written for other publications including The Sunday Times, The Daily Mail and The Lancet.

Richard Bentall

A review by Paul Broks in The Sunday Times summarized its position as: "Like Szasz, Bentall is firmly opposed to the biomedical model, but he also takes issue with extreme social relativists who would deny the reality of madness."

Spring in Park Lane

It was mentioned in an article written by restaurant critic Michael Winner in his regular column in The Sunday Times on 5 June 2005.

Tangerine Confectionery

In April 2009 the company was ranked 23rd in the PricewaterhouseCoopers Profit Track 100, published by The Sunday Times, and was the highest North West entry in the table, which lists the 100 private UK's companies with the fastest growing profits.

The Daily Mash

Neil Rafferty (a former political correspondent for The Sunday Times) and Paul Stokes (former business editor of The Scotsman), created the website in 2007 and remain the lead writers.

The Last Town Chorus

The Last Town Chorus has toured in the United States, United Kingdom, Australia and Canada, collecting praise from Spin, The New York Times, Chicago Tribune and The Village Voice in the US, and Uncut and The Sunday Times in the UK.

Tom Cannavan

He has also contributed to publications such as The Sunday Times, The Independent, The World of Fine Wine, Decanter and GrapesTALK.

Tom Hilditch

His longform investigations into the plight of the Thai Elephant, The Hello Kitty Murders, methamphetamine abuse and other topics have been widely published in magazines including British Esquire, The Sunday Times, GQ, Maxim, Marie Claire, The Independent on Sunday, Stern, US Playboy and Asiaweek.

Zak Waters

Zak Waters (born 1966) is an award-winning editorial photographer, whose newspaper clients include The Guardian, The Independent, The Sunday Times and Le Point.

Zhou Weihui

She has presented her work in a large number of Western publications, including The New York Times, The New Yorker, Time, CNN, USA Today, the BBC, The Times, The Sunday Times, The Economist, Stern, Welt am Sonntag, Asahi Shimbun, NHK, Yomiuri Shimbun, Le Monde, ND Le Figaro.