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Peter Cole

Peter Cole is professor of journalism at the University of Sheffield. Before re-entering higher education he was editor of the Sunday Correspondent, deputy editor and news editor of the Guardian, News Review editor of the Sunday Times and Londoner's Diary editor on the Evening Standard

May 2019

  • Ian Ball’s white Ford Escort blocking the path of the Princess’s Rolls Royce limousine, May 1974.

    From the Guardian archive
    From the archive: Princess Anne kidnap attempt, 1974

    23 May 1974: Peter Cole on the trial of the first person to attempt to kidnap a member of the royal family

June 2013

  • archivenorwellroberts

    From the Guardian archive
    From the archive, 8 June 1973: Copper with a special talent

    Originally published in the Guardian on 8 June 1973: The trouble with being Britain's first black policeman is that you are Britain's first black policeman, and not just a policeman

November 2012

  • Puma

    From the Guardian archive
    From the archive, 1 November 1974: Man walks into a bar with a puma

    Originally published in the Guardian on 1 November 1974: Tables were overturned and chairs flew about as customer's unusual pet goes on the rampage

24 September 2008

  • How to write
    News writing

  • How to write
    How journalists write

  • How to write
    Checklist

  • How to write
    Style

  • How to write
    Columns

  • How to write
    Features

September 2007

  • Quality street

    The 'serious' papers have experienced a breathless cycle of innovation over the past decade, says Peter Cole.

August 2007

  • The paradox of the pops

  • Why middle England gets the Mail

August 2006

  • Roy Selwyn-Smith

    Obituary: Master toymaker who brought joy to millions with his Heraldic Miniature Knights and plastic figures.

May 2001

  • Confusion, bewilderment and lots of polls - but no debate

    Peter Cole
    Recent polls give contradictory views of British opinion on Europe and the euro, says Peter Cole, professor of journalism at Sheffield University.

April 2001

  • Silence speaks volumes for Brown's doubts on Europe

  • The issue that just will not go away

    Peter Cole

  • Going bananas over fate of the metric martyr

  • April fool? Who do Eurosceptics think they are kidding?

  • April fool? Who do Eurosceptics think they are kidding?

    Peter Cole

  • April fool? Who do Eurosceptics think they are kidding?

    Peter Cole
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