Category: Heritage

Phil’s Forty, 32: Sporting chances

by editor23rd November 202023rd November 2020

Even as a business journalist there were opportunities to write about sport. Usually they involved covering the business angles, such as a Hull City sponsorship […]

Phil’s Forty, 31: Bringing a buzz to The Business

by editor22nd November 202022nd November 2020

When the time came to specialise in a particular area of journalism it took me in a direction I would never have expected. I’d had […]

Phil’s Forty, 30: Hitting the high notes

by editor19th November 202019th November 2020

Record Business rang me at home just a couple of weeks before I was due to join the Hull Daily Mail in 1980. They offered […]

Heritage

Phil’s Forty, 29: an explosive story

by editor14th November 202014th November 2020

Phil Ascough writes: That claim from a news editor about never finding good stories in pubs was never better exposed as utter nonsense over a […]

Heritage

Much loved Beverley Blackburn is saved from the scrapheap, for now

by editor12th November 202012th November 2020

The last remaining Blackburn Beverley, has been saved from the scrapheap, thanks to an anonymous benefactor and Condor Aviation. First built in 1952 by Blackburn in […]