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The People, previously known as the Sunday People, is a British
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
 tabloid Sunday-only newspaper, owned by the Trinity Mirror
Trinity Mirror

Trinity Mirror plc is a large British newspaper and magazine publisher. It is Britain's biggest newspaper group, publishing 240 regional papers as well as the Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror, The People, Sunday Mail and Daily Record....
 Group. The paper was founded on 16 October 1881.

It is a competitor to The News Of The World, although with a circulation slightly less than one million, The People lags somewhat behind its rival and its sister paper The Sunday Mirror
The Daily Mirror

The Daily Mirror is a United Kingdom tabloid newspaper founded in 1903. Twice in its history, from 1985 to 1987, and from 1997 to 2002, the title on its masthead was changed to read simply The Mirror, which is how the paper is usually referred to in popular parlance....
. It usually features scandals about celebrities.

The newspaper has been affected by cost-cutting during 2006, including fourteen journalists being made redundant.


In 2007 the paper ran a competition to find their People Babe 2007 and this was won by a new model, Billie Eadie, who was pictured posing with Rodney Bewes
Rodney Bewes

Rodney Bewes is an England television actor probably best known for playing the lovable Bob Ferris in the classic BBC Situation comedy The Likely Lads and Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?...
 in a controversial photoshoot.

1881:
1892: Joseph Hatton
Joseph Hatton

Joseph Hatton was a novelist and journalist....
1907:
1913: J.






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The People, previously known as the Sunday People, is a British
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
 tabloid Sunday-only newspaper, owned by the Trinity Mirror
Trinity Mirror

Trinity Mirror plc is a large British newspaper and magazine publisher. It is Britain's biggest newspaper group, publishing 240 regional papers as well as the Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror, The People, Sunday Mail and Daily Record....
 Group. The paper was founded on 16 October 1881.

It is a competitor to The News Of The World, although with a circulation slightly less than one million, The People lags somewhat behind its rival and its sister paper The Sunday Mirror
The Daily Mirror

The Daily Mirror is a United Kingdom tabloid newspaper founded in 1903. Twice in its history, from 1985 to 1987, and from 1997 to 2002, the title on its masthead was changed to read simply The Mirror, which is how the paper is usually referred to in popular parlance....
. It usually features scandals about celebrities.

The newspaper has been affected by cost-cutting during 2006, including fourteen journalists being made redundant.

Columnists

  • Eamonn Holmes
    Eamonn Holmes

    Eamonn Reginald Holmes is an Irish people television and radio presenter based in England. His prolific presenting across many programmes and channels in the United Kingdom and Ireland and hectic schedule was often parodied in the media to the extent that he was said to hold a monopoly....
     has a current affairs opinion page called "Man Of The People".
  • Garry Bushell
    Garry Bushell

    Garry Bushell is an England newspaper columnist, rock music Journalism, television presenter and author. Bushell also plays in the Oi! band The Gonads and manages the New York City Oi! band Maninblack....
     had a two page television
    Television

    Television is a widely used telecommunication mass-media for transmitting and receiving moving , either monochrome or color, usually accompanied by sound....
     opinion page called "Bushell On the Box", but left in early 2007, subsequently moving to the Daily Star Sunday.
  • Richard Bacon
    Richard Bacon (television presenter)

    Richard Bacon is an England television and radio presenter....
     writes the film review page "Bacon On Films".
  • Simon Read writes the money and investment page "Money People".


In 2007 the paper ran a competition to find their People Babe 2007 and this was won by a new model, Billie Eadie, who was pictured posing with Rodney Bewes
Rodney Bewes

Rodney Bewes is an England television actor probably best known for playing the lovable Bob Ferris in the classic BBC Situation comedy The Likely Lads and Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?...
 in a controversial photoshoot.

Editors

1881:
1892: Joseph Hatton
Joseph Hatton

Joseph Hatton was a novelist and journalist....
1907:
1913: J. Sansome
1924: Hannen Swaffer
Hannen Swaffer

Hannen Swaffer was United Kingdom journalist and drama critic.Swaffer was educated at Stroud Green Grammar School, Kent.He joined the Daily Mail in 1902....
1925: Harry Ainsworth
1958: Sam Campbell
1966: Bob Edwards
Bob Edwards (UK journalist)

Robert Edwards is a British journalist.Edwards was editor of Tribune , a feature writer on the Evening Standard , deputy editor of the Sunday Express , managing editor of the Daily Express then its editor , editor of the Glasgow Evening Citizen , editor of the Daily Express again , editor of the Sunday People...
1972: Geoffrey Pinnington
Geoffrey Pinnington

Geoffrey Pinnington was a British people newspaper editor.Pinnington grew up in London, studying at Harrow County School and the University of London before joining the Royal Air Force in 1940, becoming a Squadron Leader by the end of the war....
1982: Nicholas Lloyd
Nicholas Lloyd

Nicholas Lloyd is a former newspaper editor and broadcaster.Lloyd graduated from St Edmund Hall at the University of Oxford. He edited the Sunday People from 1982 to 1983, then moved to edit the News of the World for a year from 1984, and finally edited the Daily Express from 1986 until 1995....
1983:
1984: Richard Stott
Richard Stott

Richard Keith Stott was a British journalist and editor.Born in Oxford, he attended Clifton College in Bristol. He started his journalistic career in 1963....
1985:
1988: John Blake
John Blake (journalist)

John Blake is a British journalist and publisher.Blake first came to prominence in the early 1970s as a pop columnist for the Evening News in London....
1989: Wendy Henry
Wendy Henry

Wendy Henry is a former journalist and newspaper editor....
1989: Eddie Burrington (acting)
1990: Richard Stott
Richard Stott

Richard Keith Stott was a British journalist and editor.Born in Oxford, he attended Clifton College in Bristol. He started his journalistic career in 1963....
1991: Bill Hagerty
1992: Bridget Rowe
Bridget Rowe

Bridget Rowe is a former newspaper editor in the United Kingdom.Rowe worked for a succession of magazines: 19, Petticoat, Club, Look Now and Woman's World, before becoming Assistant Editor of The Sun, then editor of "Sunday", the News of the Worlds magazine....
1996:
1998: Neil Wallis
2003: Mark Thomas
2008: Lloyd Embley


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