General Chat

Have any of you appeared in the daily papers for any reason?

I haven't, but my fish and chips often used to be in the daily papers.

Probably the right Plaice for them! LOL

I had 2 letters printed in the Sun. One about wife swap & one about michael jackson earnt £15 each time ! Elaine x

Who did Michael jackson swap his wife with? A monkey called Bubbles. Sorry Elaine couldnt resist that? I think Im in a silly mood today.

I was in the Rotterdam daily paper when our family met John Glenn the astronaut. We have lovely photos of John Glen and his wife with our children outside the Town Hall in Rotterdam. Sylvia

my youngest daughter was in the evening paper when she met a famous childrens author .

when i was about ten years old around about 1937 when i could not afford a penny to go swimming at the local baths in Battersea London SW11 i used to swim in the very filthy Thames & one day a Daily Mirror reporter asked me to dive off the Bttersea Bridge for a shilling which was a fortune to me in those days , but the sod was not there after i done it & the next day i was on the front page & the caption said this young lad dives in for a cooler & one of my friends who were with me at this time showed it to my dad & got me a beating for swimming in the thames i once wrote to the Daily Mirror to get my long standing reward plus interest but to no avail & not many years ago i went to the news paper archives to search for this addition but i never had enough time that day & it is a long way to go back to Collingdale but i would love to trace i

I've not been in a national daily, just the local paper. They were asking for stories from people who had Leap Year weddings and I sent mine in as we married on 29 February 1992. They put a photo of us on the front page and the full story inside! That's my only claim to fame but both my children have been on TV! Lynne

When I was a student nurse I had menigoccal septicaemia and I was mentioned in the paper but they didn`t put my name in -it was 1971! Rosalyn

I made it into the local paper on Easter Monday 1966. That was the day I was born, on my mother's own birthday (she a twin), and it was also a day on which there were snow showers - unheard of then but more common at Easter now. Have tried to keep out of the papers since though I have been quoted as a Government "spokesman" a couple of times. Angela

I was in the News Chronicle in 1950! See my famous face on the GC photos page! I was also on the front page of our local paper when our milkman had his takings snatched and we organised a collection for him to replace the stolen money. Sue

Had a letter printed in the Daily Express - does that count??

Had a letter printed in Family Circle about 1975 - does that count?

Back in about 1968ish, my brother and I were in the local rag at Wpping, we'd gone to some sort of toy fair there. And in 1973, I was in the local rag at Harwich, I'd been a hanky girl, at the local hospital fete. And although I've not seen it, a friend of mine insists that my picture was on the front of the 2002/2003 train timetable!!! Liz

Ooops forgot about our local paper - front page news when May Day had to be postponed iuntil June because the May Queen (me) had mumps lol

Other half and I were in a national paper and on local t.v news a few years back when I had a mega cause police c.s sprayed other half when he was having an epileptic seizure!! Sue:-)

Judith why were you in Prima magazine? Is it a good story?