Reunited by a blog

A blog produces surprises, usually pleasant ones. I had lost contact with Mike, a journalist, when we went our own ways back in the 1960s. He came across my name on the web and found my blog. Mike and I were sub-editors on the Daily Herald. It is not a publication much remembered now, although it was once the most popular newspaper in Britain. Its great days were between the wars. But by the 1960s it was losing circulation against the likes of the Daily Express and the Daily Mirror. While Mike and I were there it was relaunched as the Sun, but after a promising send-off it declined and was sold to Murdoch who turned it into the successful tabloid it is today.