Peter Moore

Peter Moore once turned to his beloved mother and said: “Mum, I think I’m at a dangerous age.”

She took one of those long, drawn-out sighs that only mothers can, and said: “Son, you’ve always been at a dangerous age!”

It strained the family finances to the limit to put this true-bred cockney boy through a once posh grammar school, the first from a council house to do so at the age of 11.

His first job interview was outside Emerson Park Halt push-pull railway station, in Upminster, Essex, because the noise in the print works was too loud. First week’s wage packet was Ł4- minus income tax and national insurance stamp. A fortune!

The rest, as they say, is history: precocious smart aleck becomes editor and deputy group editor of his local newspaper, while embarking on a Fleet Street career that included working as a sub editor and reporter on The Times, Daily Mail, Mirror, The Sun before settling down to spend a quarter of a century on the News of The World.

His career included being deputy political editor, night news editor, sub editor, and deputy special investigations editor.

He wrote his political satire 2030:The Lottery out of anger at the way
Prime Minister Tony Blair usurped his power ... click links for details

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