John Junor Remembered

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The newspaper had reported that a Tory MP claimed Rayner was adopting a “Basic Instinct” style ploy towards Johnson, in a reference to the Sharon Stone 1992 film in which she flashes a policeman during an interview. When JFK Jr. and Carolyn got married: Never before seen tapes on TV for first time". USA TODAY . Retrieved August 21, 2023. In Lancaster in the 70s, I was coming to terms with being gay, and having come to that realisation I wanted to do something about it. Lancaster University was seen as a pretty radical place. LGBTQ+ activist living in Lancaster since early 1970s In 1976, the Lancaster CHE group set up the Lancaster Gay Switchboard (the first LGBTQ+ helpline in the Northwest), and relaunched it in 1991 as Lancaster Lesbian and Gay Switchboard, which ran until 2007. It was operated from the Single Step Cooperative, a radical bookshop that also sold dried wholefoods. Staffed by volunteers and open two nights a week, the Switchboard aimed to provide support and information to LGBTQ+ people locally and throughout the region. She's glamorous, tall with a white Anna Wintour bob and glacial eyes, nails painted with absolute precision, clothes freshly drawn from a dry-cleaning sheath. I'm thinking, 'Will she be chilly?' as I shake her hand. So later, when we talk about her family (her father was the bellicose Fleet Street editor John Junor), she floors me by starting to cry.

The Independent Press Standards Organisation (Ipso) received more than 5,000 complaints about the story, which Rayner described as “gutter journalism” while accusing the sources of “spreading desperate, perverted smears in their doomed attempts to save [the prime minister’s] skin”. More and more people are looking for toys that have some longevity’ … Jennifer Murray. Photograph: Christopher Thomond/The Guardian The toymaker Now we have learned from the Leveson inquiry that a different form of "mutual advantage" came into play over the last decade or so, with the Metropolitan Police and News International intertwined far too closely. We were young radicals challenging homophobia, sexism, racism, fascism and capitalism our house became a political hub for meetings to organise activist activities and interventions. A founder member of the West Road Gay CollectiveThe house was a hub for organising lesbian and gay campaigns, and other political campaigns – and they formed Lancaster Gay Action Group, which became the Lancaster Gay Liberation Front in 1971. The West Road Collective also became a significant place for transgender people at the time. In 2014, Reverend Chris Newlands, the former Vicar of Lancaster Parish Church, created the first liturgy in England for a transgender person. The Documenting Dissent Project was funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund, and provided by Global Link.

British Journalism Review Vol. 13, No. 3, 2002 - the greatest editor of them all?". Archived from the original on 23 February 2007 . Retrieved 17 March 2007.Junor's first book on Diana was published in 1998. But what's odd about her career is that she had zero "passion" or even "interest" in the royals. She was already a successful journalist, columnist and television presenter, and only took on Diana because she was rung up and asked. After it was published, "I thought 'never again'." At one time, Penny worked and James was a stay-at-home dad, helping with their four children (born in two "batches" 10 years apart). "But this was way before anybody else," she stresses. "He'd go to the school gate and be eyed with real suspicion by the other mothers. When I finished my book, he wrote one about being a house husband." Junor has written several books about the British royal family; she has written biographies of Diana, Princess of Wales (1982) and Charles, Prince of Wales (1987 and 1998), and Charles and Diana: Portrait of a Marriage (1991). The Firm: The Troubled Life of the House of Windsor followed in 2005. Her work on the Waleses "alienated" both of them and she reportedly considers the experience the worst of her career. [3] She has also written and had published a book titled Prince William: The Man Who Will Be King (2012). This biography of Prince William ends with his marriage to Catherine Middleton. Junor's biography of Prince Harry, Prince Harry: Brother, Soldier, Son, was published in 2014. Despite his behaviour, Penny Junor remains proud of him. But she counts her blessings that he died when he did (after an operation, in 1997, for a gangrenous gut), still writing, still active and did not live into a cantankerous old age, when the task of looking after him, she fears, would have fallen to her. Would any officer now risk talking to a journalist about this? And would they really be confident about calling a proposed hotline instead? In fact, the big chill on relations between police and journalists had already started some months before the Leveson report was completed.