The 'Tamworth Two' was a name given to two juvenile Tamworth pigs which escaped from Newman's Abattoir on Monday the 6th of January 1998 and went on the run. The pair, a brother and sister, belonged to a road cleaner, Armaldo Diiulio, who had intended to sell them for 40 pounds each to the abattoir to be slaughtered and butchered. The escaping pigs swam across the River Avon and hid in a thicket on a wooded hillside near MalmesburyAbbey. The story was reported by Wendy Best of the 'Western Daily Press', a local newspaper, and then the national newspapers heard about the story and the 'Daily Mail' dispatched a freelance reporter to find the pigs, who they christened 'Butch' and 'Sundance', and rescue them. The story gripped public attention for a week while the search for the pair continued until they were caught, and bought by the 'Daily Mail' for an alleged sum of 15,000 pounds. The newspaper then housed the two pigs at a Rare Breeds Centre in Kent where they were cared for and six years later were still living, fully
grown by then and very content. Research Tamworth Two
Sir Alfred Charles William Harmsworth was an Irish publisher. He was born in 1865 and died in 1922. Alfred Harmsworth had an insight into what the public wanted, and revolutionished British newspapers by producing the first tabloid newspaper, the Daily Mail, in 1896 which included gossip and pictures rather than the dry court reports and the like of the established and unpopular newspapers. In 1903 he started the Daily Mirrornewspaper as a paper for women and later bought The Times and lowered its retail price to increase sales. His concept of low cost, large volume sales, was applied to a set of affordable encyclopaedias published in 1906 as The Harmsworth Encyclopaedia, and later re-issued as The Harmsworth Universal Encyclopaedia in about 1922. Research Alfred Harmsworth
Amy Johnson was an English aviator. She was born in 1903 at Hull, Humberside and died in 1941. She became a pilot in 1929 and in 1930 flew solo from England to Australia in a second-hand De Havilland DH 60 Gipsy Moth aircraft (christened Jason Wanderer) which her father bought for her, setting a new speed record, breaking the record held by Bert Hinkler - despite losing two days after hitting a ditch while landing at Insein which caused considerable damage to the plane - for which she won a prize of £10,000 awarded by the London Daily Mailnewspaper. During the Second World War she was a pilot with the Air Transport Auxiliary and died after bailing out over the Thamesestuary. Research Amy Johnson
George Warrington Steevens was an English journalist. He was born in 1869 at Sydenham, Surrey and died in 1900. Educated at the City of London School and Balliol College, Oxford he became a fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford. Editor of The Cambridge Observer and a contributor to the Pall Mall Gazette and Blackwood's Magazine he joined the staff of The Daily Mail in 1896. He was a foreign correspondent for the Pall Mall Gazette and Daily Mail and died of typhoid fever while reporting on the Boer War. Research George Steevens
Sir John Alcock was an English airman. He was born in 1892 at Manchester and died in 1919. He trained as an engineer at the Empress Motor Works before turning his attention to aviation and in 1912 won the flying certificate of the Royal Aero Club. He then started competing in aero races, coming second in the 1913 London to Manchester and back race. In 1914 he joined the Royal Navy Air Service and was made an instructor at Eastchurch. Serving at the front against the Turks, winning the DSC and the record for a long-distance bombing raid before he was taken prisoner. In June 1919 he, together with A.W. Brown entered the Daily Mail sponsored competition to fly across the Atlantic, and together they made the first flight across the Atlantic, flying from Newfoundland to Ireland in a little over sixteen hours, winning 10,000 pounds prize money and a few days later they were both knighted. Sir John Alcock was killed in December 1919 in an aeroplane crash while flying from London to Paris. Research John Alcock
Daily Mail is London Cockney rhyming slang for tale.
Daily Mail is London Cockney rhyming slang for ale.
Daily Mail is London Cockney rhyming slang for bail.
Daily Mail is London Cockney rhyming slang for nail.
Daily Mail is London Cockney rhyming slang for the backside, buttocks (tail).
Daily Mail is British slang for the sex. Research Daily Mail
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