Richard Clive Desmond (born 8 December, 1951) is a British publisher, current owner of Express Newspapers and founder of Northern and Shell plc. Express Newspapers publishes the "Daily Express", "Sunday Express", "Daily Star Sunday" and "Daily Star". Northern and Shell was notorious for publishing dozens of pornographic titles, such as "Big Ones", "Skinny and Wriggly", "Forum", …

Robert Michael Kilroy-Silk (born 19 May 1942) is a British former politician and a well-known presenter of his former daytime television confessional talk show "Kilroy". Onetime university lecturer and Labour Party member of Parliament (MP), he more recently stood successfully for the UK Independence Party (UKIP) in the 2004 election to the European Parliament, before leaving them in 2005 to found a new party called "Veritas", …

Michael White is a British writer based in Perth, Australia. He has been a science editor of British "GQ", a columnist for the "Sunday Express" in London and, 'in a previous incarnation', he was a member of the band the Thompson Twins (1982). Between 1984 and 1991 he was a science lecturer at d'Overbroeck's College in Oxford before becoming a full-time writer. He is the author of twenty-five books: these include the international best-sellers, …

Sir John Donald Brown Junor (15 January, 1919 - 3 May, 1997) was a Scottish journalist. A columnist at the "Sunday Express", he became its editor-in-chief. He then moved to the "Mail on Sunday". He was noted for recurrent catchphrases, two of them being "pass the sick-bag, Alice" and "I don't know, but I think we should be told". Junor frequently mentioned his home town of Auchtermuchty in Fife. He was knighted in 1980.

Eve Pollard (born 25 December 1945) is a British journalist. Her journalistic career began in 1967 at "Honey" magazine where she was the tea girl, eventually becoming fashion editor. She was the second female editor, in modern times, of a national newspaper in the UK editing the "Sunday Mirror" from 1987-1991 and the "Sunday Express" from 1991-1994. Wendy Henry former editor of the "News of the World" and the "Sunday People" was the first.

Julia Hartley-Brewer is political editor of the "Sunday Express" A graduate of Magdalen College, Oxford and the Centre for Journalism Studies, Cardiff, Hartley-Brewer previously worked for "The Guardian" (1999 - 2000). In the past Hartley-Brewer has been called upon to offer her analysis across the BBC appearing on "Breakfast News", …

Amanda Jane Platell (born 12 November 1957 in Perth, Western Australia) is a journalist and the former press secretary of William Hague, who was leader of the Conservative Party from 1997 to 2001. Platell has worked at the "Daily Mirror" and she was once Labour party's director of communications, Alistair Campbell's boss at The Mirror. Later, she edited the "Sunday Express".

Tom Morton (born December 31, 1955) is a Scottish writer, broadcaster, and musician. He lives and works in the Shetland Islands. Morton currently (2007) has a BBC Radio Scotland music show, broadcast each weekday afternoon. He has written numerous books, including a bestselling biography of the Gaelic rock band Runrig, a whisky travelogue, and several novels. For many years, he worked as a print journalist, …

Richard Harold Naylor (1889-1952), better known as R. H. Naylor was the first sun sign astrologer. Newspaper astrology columns began in August 1930 in the Sunday Express, just after the birth of Princess Margaret. The editor wanted a story on her birth but with a new angle, so Cheiro (then the biggest name in astrology) was asked to do her horoscope. Cheiro was unavailable, so the job went to R H Naylor, one of his assistants.

Adam Helliker is a British journalist. He worked for the Daily Mail as a feature writer and diarist from 1981 until 1997 when he moved to the Sunday Telegraph, where he edited the Mandrake column for four years. In 2004 he was sacked from his job as a Mail on Sunday diarist on the grounds of gross misconduct: selling an address book belonging to Princess Diana to a US dealer for £25,000. He now writes the Adam Helliker column for the Sunday Express.

Lynn Barber (born 22 May 1944) is a British journalist, currently writing for "The Observer". Barber is from Bagshot, Surrey, and studied English Language and Literature at the University of Oxford. Barber worked for "Penthouse" magazine for seven years, then for the "Sunday Express", "The Independent on Sunday", "Vanity Fair", "The Sunday Times", "The Daily Telegraph" and "The Observer".

Mitchell Symons is a Journalist/Writer from London, England. Born in 1957, he was educated at Mill Hill School and the LSE where he studied Law. Since leaving the BBC, where he was a researcher and director, he worked as a writer, broadcaster and journalist. He was a principal writer for the early UK editions of the world-renowned board game Trivial Pursuit, and has devised many television formats. He wrote an award-winning opinion column for the Daily Express.

Victoria Hislop is a British author. Educated at St Hilda's College, Oxford, she worked in publishing and as a journalist before becoming an author. Her first novel "The Island", which the "Sunday Express" hailed as "the new Captain Corelli's Mandolin", was a Number 1 Bestseller in the UK, its success in part the result of having been selected by the "Richard and Judy" Book Club for their 2006 Summer Reads.

Ronald William Fordham Searle (born March 3, 1920) is an English cartoonist. Searle trained at Cambridgeshire College of Arts and Technology, currently known as Anglia Ruskin University. He is the creator of, among other things, St Trinian's School and co-author (with Geoffrey Willans) of the Molesworth tetralogy. He was born in Cambridge, to parents Willie and Nellie (his father was a porter at Cambridge Railway Station), …

David Carr was a sailor from Reddish, Manchester. He died at a relatively young age owing to multiple complications that were at the time inexplicable to his doctors at the Manchester Royal Infirmary. In 1990, more than three decades after his death, stored tissue samples from his body were tested positive for HIV. Given the date of his death, he was suspected to have been the first victim of AIDS in the West.

Kevin Carter (September 13,1960 - July 27,1994) was an award-winning South African photojournalist and member of the Bang-Bang Club. Carter began his career as a weekend sports photographer in 1983 for Johannesburg's "Sunday Express". A year later he moved on to work for the Johannesburg "Star" bent on exposing the brutality of apartheid. That same year Carter's first "Time" cover appeared.

As a journalist Kate Saunders has had a lengthy career writing for a string of national newspapers and magazines in the UK including "The Sunday Times", "Sunday Express", "Daily Telegraph", "She" and "Cosmopolitan". She has also been a regular contributor with appearances on the "Radio 4" programmes "Woman's Hour", "Start the Week" and "Kaleidoscope".

Jon Craig (b. 1957 in Eastham, Cheshire, England) is Sky News' chief political correspondent. Craig grew up between Cheshire and Yorkshire before going to Southampton to read law. Before becoming Chief Political Correspondent for Sky News, Craig was Political Editor of the "Daily Express" until 1998. From there he moved to the "Sunday Express" and became Political Editor.

Richard Addis (born 1956) is a British journalist and former editor of the "Daily Express" newspaper. He is a graduate of Cambridge University and a former novice Anglican monk. He started his first staff job on newspapers in 1985 as a reporter on Londoner's Diary of the London "Evening Standard". He went on to become Editor of Londoner's Diary and Assistant Editor (Features). In 1989 he was appointed Deputy Editor of "The Sunday Telegraph".

Lynne Franks (born 16 April 1948) is one of the best-known public relations consultants in the world, a United Kingdom-based commentator on women's issues, sustainability, and consumer lifestyles. Lynne Franks is the "Be all you want to be" business-woman columnist in the financial pages of London's Sunday Express.

Milton Shulman (Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 1 September 1913 - 24 May 2004) was a prominent Canadian author and drama critic. He was also film critic for the "Evening Standard", "Sunday Express" and "Vogue". Two of his books are "Every Home Should Have One" and "Defeat in the West".

Prue Leith OBE, Founder, Leith School of Wine Prue Leiths name is synonymous with fine food. She has been a TV-cook, broadcaster, columnist, publisher of 12 cookbooks, restaurateur, co-founder of a cookery charity and founder of the cookery school that bears her name.

Robert Edwards (1925-) is a British journalist. Edwards was editor of "Tribune" (1951-54), a feature writer on the "Evening Standard" (1954-57), deputy editor of the "Sunday Express" (1957-59), managing editor of the "Daily Express" (1959-61) then its editor (1961), editor of the Glasgow "Evening Citizen" (1962-63), editor of the "Daily Express" again (1963-65), …

James Louis Garvin was a British journalist who edited both the "Pall Mall Gazette" (1912-1915) and "The Observer" (1908-42). He also wrote for the "Sunday Express" and "The Daily Telegraph" and was editor-in-chief of "Encyclopædia Britannica" (1926-1932). In 1919 Garvin wrote an editorial in "The Observer" on the Treaty of Versailles saying "The Treaty left the Germans 'no real hope except in revenge'".

Sophie Grigson (born Hester Sophia Frances Grigson on June 19 1959 in Swindon, Wiltshire) is a British cookery writer and celebrity "chef" (though she would prefer to be known as a cook), the daughter of Jane Grigson. She is known for her extravagant, dangly earrings and her ever ballooning girth. Sophie appears regularly on the BBC Food television channel. After graduating in 1982 with a B.Sc.

Yaroslav Horak is a Russian born, Australian based illustrator. He was the second artist for the "Daily Express" James Bond comic strips from 1966 to 1977, then for the "Sunday Express" and the "Daily Star" from 1977 to 1979 and again from 1983 to 1984. In total Horak worked on 33 James Bond comic strips after taking over from John McLusky.

Marcus Berkmann (born London, England, July 14 1960), is a journalist and author. Educated at Highgate School and Worcester College, Oxford, he began his career as a freelance journalist, contributing to computer and gaming magazines. In the 1990s he had stints as television critic for the Daily Mail and the Sunday Express and has written a monthly pop music column for "The Spectator" since 1987.

Kate Long, author of the number one bestselling novel "The Bad Mother's Handbook" lives in Whitchurch in Shropshire, UK. She was brought up in Lancashire in a small village half-way between Wigan and Bolton. At 18 she left home to study English at Bristol University, where she gained a First, and then trained as a teacher in Exmouth for a year. Her first job was in Guildford, which is where she met her husband.

Mark Douglas-Home (born August 31 1951) is a Scottish journalist, best known for having been the editor of "The Herald" newspaper. The son of Edward Charles Douglas-Home and Nancy Rose Straker-Smith, he, along with his two brothers, was educated at Eton College and the University of the Witwatersrand, where he was the editor of the then fervently anti-apartheid student newspaper, "Wits Student".

Sir James Gordon Reece, KB (b. 28 September 1929, Liverpool - d. 22 September 2001, London) was the son of a car salesman who was successful enough to send his son to Ratcliffe College, a Roman Catholic boarding school in Leicestershire (a contemporary was Norman St John Stevas, now Lord St John of Fawsley). He read Law at Downing College, Cambridge and decided on a career in journalism.

John Sachs (born 1957) is a British voiceover and commentator known for his narration on the popular ITV show "Gladiators" and as a long time DJ on London's Capital Radio John Sachs has been involved in the entertainment industry for the past 25 years. For 17 years John has been a radio and television broadcaster 12 of those years spent on Capital Radio, where he won numerous awards, …

Charles Ranke Patrick Graves was a journalist and writer. Born in Wimbledon, England, he worked on the Sunday Express, Daily Mail and many other newspapers. He published 46 books in all including the "Thin Blue Line or Adventures in the RAF." His hobbies were golf and gin rummy. He was the brother of Robert Graves.

Jane Symons (born 1959) is an Australian journalist and author based in London, where she is health editor of "The Sun". Symons has contributed to many of Britain's national newspapers, including "The Times", "Daily Mail", the "Daily Mirror", the "Daily Express" and "Sunday Express". She was health editor of "Woman's Own" magazine and chief sub-editor of the "The Daily Telegraph" Saturday magazine.

Charlotte Reather is an English comedy writer and actress. Educated at Cheltenham Ladies’ College she went on to study English Literature at Kingston University. Charlotte first burst onto the scene after writing and performing her own stand-up show as part of the Open Mic Awards. She then went on to produce comedy events at the ICA (Institute of Contemporary Arts) featuring well-known performers such as Simon Munnery, Stewart Lee and Lee Mack.

Stuart Pyke is a British-born sports journalist and broadcaster. Stuart was born in St Helens, Merseyside, and is married to Christine. He has two children Daniel and Rachael and two step-daughters Emma and Victoria. He is now most well known for his darts commentary on Sky Sports and rugby league commentary on BBC Radio Five Live. He also writes for the Daily Telegraph, Sunday Express and the website of darts equipment manufactor, Unicorn.

Arthur Desmond Colquhoun Gore, 9th Earl of Arran (born 14 July 1938), styled Viscount Sudley before 1983, is a British peer and an elected hereditary member of the House of Lords for the Conservative Party. Lord Arran is the son of Arthur Gore, 8th Earl of Arran and the former Fiona Colquhoun, first daughter of Sir Iain Colquhoun of Luss, 7th Baronet. He was educated at Eton College and Balliol College, Oxford.