Category: Heritage

Phil’s Forty, 35: Private practice

by editor24th December 202026th December 2020

It started as a conversation about a commercial property firm agreeing a one-year lease with a business in Hull which needed a big industrial shed. […]

Professional Footballers’ Association, The Players’ Century in 2008.

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Phil’s Forty, 34: Page-turners.

by editor13th December 202013th December 2020

My departure from PA Sport came when they said they were not going do any more books about sport. Whether they stuck to that I […]

Phil’s Forty, 33: World of sport

by editor12th December 202012th December 2020

Apparently some people don’t like football, so I can only apologise that it features again in this piece, and that for more than 10 years […]

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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]