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800th Edition

800th Edition Print Edition Profile 

‘The most fun I’ve had in my life without taking my clothes off’

November 16, 2017November 16, 2017 Joe Rossiter 0 Comments

To mark Palatinate’s 800th edition, former editor Hunter Davies, OBE, remembers avoiding his studies, impersonating rowers, and smashing a Castle stained-glass window with an orange…

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Durham war heroes, ice hockey behind the Iron Curtain, and ‘lefty’ Palatinate

November 16, 2017December 7, 2021 Joe Rossiter 0 Comments Harold Evans, Harold Evans day

Sir Harold Evans edited The Times and Sunday Times, and was voted the nation’s greatest ever newspaper editor. To mark our 800th edition, he reflects on taking over Palatinate a mere three years after its creation…

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Two words: ‘Seize Love’

November 16, 2017November 16, 2017 Joe Rossiter 2 Comments Jeremy Vine

Radio 2, Eggheads and election-night graphics would be lost without him – as would have been Palatinate in Epiphany Term, 1986. Three decades on from his editorship, Jeremy Vine offers some heartfelt advice to the University’s present undergrads…

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