During the autumn of 1999, I took a phone call from an emissary of Paul Dacre, the commanding editor of the Daily Mail. Robin Esser, in the glorious tradition of the newspaper, invited me to join him for a glass of champagne at the Howard Hotel on the Embankment in central London. He told me that … Read more
Royals, racing and finding Ronnie Biggs: Colin Mackenzie’s new memoir tells how he landed one of the greatest Fleet Street exclusives of all time Colin Mackenzie found Ronnie Biggs, the escaped Great Train Robber, in 1974 Mackenzie, then a reporter on the Daily Express, found him and got his story Pressing My Luck by Colin … Read more
Royals, racing and finding Ronnie Biggs: Colin Mackenzie’s new memoir tells how he landed one of the greatest Fleet Street exclusives of all time Colin Mackenzie found Ronnie Biggs, the escaped Great Train Robber, in 1974 Mackenzie, then a reporter on the Daily Express, found him and got his story Pressing My Luck by Colin … Read more