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29 Dec 18
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Just been watching the ABC Murders in between races I have an interest in. It's set in 1933 and one of the victims was reading an article in some paper about Doncaster races written by Templegate.
I know Templegate is The Sun's resident tipster but The Sun only goes back to the 60s. Did they inherit the name from some other paper or is this a mistake ?
I thought I had caught the programme out for an anachronism earlier on when a character was singing "Night and Day". Most of Cole Porter's famous songs are later but they got that right as it appeared in 1932.
Anybody know about Templegate ?
I know Templegate is The Sun's resident tipster but The Sun only goes back to the 60s. Did they inherit the name from some other paper or is this a mistake ?
I thought I had caught the programme out for an anachronism earlier on when a character was singing "Night and Day". Most of Cole Porter's famous songs are later but they got that right as it appeared in 1932.
Anybody know about Templegate ?
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When Rupert Murdoch bought the Daily Herald, it was relaunched as The Sun in the late 1960s. Templegate was inherited from the Herald and has remained so ever since.
Ah thanks.
I now remember that I knew the Sun was somehow descended from the Herald. What a great Trade Unionist Rupert Murdoch is.
I now remember that I knew the Sun was somehow descended from the Herald. What a great Trade Unionist Rupert Murdoch is.
Time these silly pseudonyms are done away with.
The top 'red top' tipster is Jason Heavey who took over from Patrick Weaver (Daily Star).
Steve Jones and David Yates hide behind these silly names.
They should be named.
https://www.racingpost.com/tipping/press-challenge/
The top 'red top' tipster is Jason Heavey who took over from Patrick Weaver (Daily Star).
Steve Jones and David Yates hide behind these silly names.
They should be named.
https://www.racingpost.com/tipping/press-challenge/
The Sun was launched in September 1964, replacing The Daily Herald, but that was nothing to with Murdoch. I remember reading the first day edition on the train on the way to school. It was a broadsheet. Murdoch bought The Sun in 1969 and turned into a tabloid, and a very different, and much more successful newspaper.
The Daily Herald was first published in 1912, and Templegate was tipping in it from at least as early as 1920. Here's a piece in the Spectator of 29/5/1920 criticising the Herald's 'hypocrisy' (it being a Labour Party-supporting paper) in denouncing capitalism on the one hand, whilst boasting about Templegate's tipping success on horseracing ("a sport which can only exist in a capitalist state") on the other...
http://archive.spectator.co.uk/article/29th-may-1920/3/we-have-noticed-a-news-bill-of-the-daily-herald
The Daily Herald was first published in 1912, and Templegate was tipping in it from at least as early as 1920. Here's a piece in the Spectator of 29/5/1920 criticising the Herald's 'hypocrisy' (it being a Labour Party-supporting paper) in denouncing capitalism on the one hand, whilst boasting about Templegate's tipping success on horseracing ("a sport which can only exist in a capitalist state") on the other...
http://archive.spectator.co.uk/article/29th-may-1920/3/we-have-noticed-a-news-bill-of-the-daily-herald
* I hadn't bought the paper. It belonged to my aunt. She bet every day, and worked in Bermondsey, where I went to school, and I travelled with her sometimes.
Templegates are like timelords, I believe the current one is a laydee
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LIonel Cureton has the distinction of being the only Templegate to be employed by both The Daily Herald and The Sun. Lived in a posh house in Surrey!!
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