Lloyd Turner (2 October 1938 – 12 September 1996) was a
newspaper editor
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in the
United Kingdom
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.
Born in
Australia
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, Turner worked on the ''
Newcastle Morning Herald'' before moving to England to work as a journalist at the ''
Manchester Evening News
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''. He subsequently relocated to London to work on the ''
Daily Express
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'', where he became
father of the chapel
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of the newspaper's
National Union of Journalists
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Structure
There i ...
. During this period, he founded the 84 Club, a
drinking club
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, with Peter Tory.
["Obituary: Lloyd Turner", '']The Times
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'', September 1996
After working for many years as chief sub editor of the ''Express'', Turner was appointed editor of its stablemate, the ''
Daily Star''. He increased its sales, at the expense of the ''
Daily Mirror
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'', but was sacked in 1987 after being convicted of libelling
Jeffrey Archer
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,
by claiming that he had had sex with prostitute
Monica Coghlan
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. Archer was awarded a then-record £500,000 in damages but, in 2001, Archer was convicted of perjury and perverting the course of justice at the 1987 trial, and was imprisoned.
["'Gotcha' says editor's widow,"]
''Daily Telegraph
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'', 22 July 2001. Out of journalism, Turner bought a farm and began rearing
bull
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includin ...
s.
He was brought back in November 1988 as editor of the short-lived newspaper ''
The Post''
until the paper closed five weeks later.
Returning to farming, Turner came back one more time to the national newspaper ''
Today
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'', serving as an assistant editor until the paper closed down in 1995.
He worked as an advisor to the
National Farmers' Union of England and Wales
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History
On 10 December 1908, a meetin ...
on
Bovine spongiform encephalopathy
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until his death, at which time he was planning to again return to an editorial post, this time on the ''
Daily Mail
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''.
References
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1938 births
1996 deaths
Australian newspaper editors
British newspaper editors
20th-century British farmers
Daily Star (United Kingdom) people