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Article: WELCOME TO 2000: OUR GREAT STORY : Paper of the century; HOW WE BROUGHT YOU DRAMA, HEARTACHE AND JOY THROUGH THE YEARS.(Features)
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- The Mirror (London, England)
- Article date:
- January 1, 2000
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OF ALL the difficult births and tough childhoods in the early years of the 20th Century, The Mirror's was as hard as they came.
Born in 1903 as a paper for women, it almost didn't make it.
Anyone who had prophesied that it would eventually sell five million copies a day, have the power to make and break governments and still be full of energy and vitality at the ripe old age of 97 would have been laughed out of Fleet Street.
But it has done all that and more. Much more.
True to its name, The Mirror reflected the last century. The highs and ...