113-604: Cicely Fox Smith (1 February 1882 – 8 April 1954) was an English poet and writer. Born in Lymm , Cheshire and educated at Manchester High School for Girls , she briefly lived in Canada, before returning to the United Kingdom shortly before the outbreak of World War I . She settled in Hampshire and began writing poetry, often with a nautical theme. Smith wrote over 600 poems in her life, for
226-579: A book of traditional sea shanties that she had collected, and edited a collection of sea poems and stories primarily by other authors. In 1937 Smith finally realised a childhood dream by sailing around the coast of Africa, as a guest of the Union-Castle Mail Steamship Co. Ltd ., stopping in the harbors along the way. She wrote of her experiences in All the Way Round: Sea Roads to Africa . In
339-556: A cadet branch of the Leigh family) this is now Lymm High School . Foxley Hall, home to a cadet branch of the ancient Booth family before ownership passed to the Carlisle family, is no longer standing, but fustian -cutting cottages on Church Road and Arley Grove do survive. The parish church of St Peter, Oughtrington , is an example of Gothic Revival architecture. St Mary's Church, Lymm , overlooking Lymm Dam and dating back to 1521,
452-402: A girl. She had a fierce desire to travel to Africa but eventually settled for a voyage to Canada. Smith likely sailed with her sister Madge in 1911 on a steamship to Montreal , where she would then have travelled by train to Lethbridge, Alberta , staying for about a year with her older brother Richard Andrew Smith before continuing on to British Columbia (BC). From 1912 to 1913 she resided in
565-486: A great-grandson of one of the original co-founders, is the chairman and controlling shareholder of the Daily Mail and General Trust, while day-to-day editorial decisions for the newspaper are usually made by a team led by the editor. Ted Verity succeeded Geordie Greig as editor on 17 November 2021. A survey in 2014 found the average age of its readers was 58, and it had the lowest demographic for 15- to 44-year-olds among
678-650: A green rectangle with the word "IRISH", instead of the Royal Arms , but this was later changed, with "Irish Daily Mail" displayed instead. The Irish version includes stories of Irish interest alongside content from the UK version. According to the Audit Bureau of Circulations, the Irish edition had a circulation of 63,511 for July 2007, falling to an average of 49,090 for the second half of 2009. Since 24 September 2006 Ireland on Sunday ,
791-547: A hardline against President Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt, taking the viewpoint that Britain was justified in invading Egypt to retake control of the Suez canal and topple Nasser. The Daily Mail was transformed by its editor during the 1970s and 1980s, David English . He had been editor of the Daily Sketch from 1969 to 1971, when it closed. Part of the same group from 1953, the Sketch
904-489: A hazy recollection of epic poems after Pope's Iliad, romantic poems after Marmion stored carefully away in tin tobacco boxes when I was seven or eight." All of that early work is lost unfortunately. She published her first book of verses when she was 17 and it received favourable press comments. Wandering the moors near her home she developed a spirit of adventure. She would follow the Holcombe Harriers hunt on foot as
1017-584: A leader on 21 June 1927 entitled "Hungary's Place in the Sun". In "Hungary's Place in the Sun", he approvingly noted that Hungary was dominated both politically and economically by its "chivalrous and warlike aristocracy", whom he noted in past centuries had battled the Ottoman Empire, leading him to conclude that all of Europe owned a profound debt to the Hungarian aristocracy which had been "Europe's bastion against which
1130-614: A leader praised Mussolini as "the great figure of the age. Mussolini will probably dominate the history of the twentieth century as Napoleon dominated the early nineteen century". By 1929, George Ward Price was writing in the Mail that Baldwin should be deposed and Beaverbrook elected as leader. In early 1930, the two Lords launched the United Empire Party , which the Daily Mail supported enthusiastically. Like Lord Beaverbrook, Rothemere
1243-596: A most genteel 'English' type". In the 1938 crisis over the Sudetenland, The Daily Mail was very hostile in its picture of President Edvard Beneš , whom Rothermere noted disapprovingly in a leader in July 1938 had signed an alliance with the Soviet Union in 1935, leading him to accuse Beneš of turning "Czechoslovakia into a corridor for Russia against Germany". Rothermere concluded his leader: "If Czechoslovakia becomes involved in
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#17328586309091356-551: A period of journalistic success in the 1980s, employing Fleet Street writers such as gossip columnist Nigel Dempster , Lynda Lee-Potter and sportswriter Ian Wooldridge (who unlike some of his colleagues – the paper generally did not support sporting boycotts of white-minority-ruled South Africa – strongly opposed apartheid ). In 1982 a Sunday title, the Mail on Sunday , was launched (the Scottish Sunday Mail , now owned by
1469-517: A population of 12,660. The village is situated in the northern aspect of Cheshire and borders Greater Manchester to the East and lies 1 mile from the border of Salford to the north. The name Lymm, of Celtic origins, means a "place of running water" and is likely derived from an ancient stream that ran through the village centre. The village appears as "Limme" in the Domesday Book of 1086. Lymm
1582-443: A publicity stunt to sell advertising and he refused to attend. But his wife exerted pressure upon him and he changed his view, becoming more supportive. By 1922 the editorial side of the paper was fully engaged in promoting the benefits of modern appliances and technology to free its female readers from the drudgery of housework. The Mail maintained the event until selling it to Media 10 in 2009. As Lord Northcliffe aged, his grip on
1695-554: A reality". Ward Price was one of the most controversial British journalists of the 1930s, who was one of the few British journalists allowed to interview both Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler because both fascist leaders knew that Ward Price could be trusted to take a favorable tone and ask "soft" questions. Wickham Steed called Ward Price "the lackey of Mussolini, Hitler and Rothermere". The British historian Daniel Stone called Ward Price's reporting from Berlin and Rome "a mixture of snobbery, name dropping and obsequious pro-fascism of
1808-660: A series of promotions in the paper which had run for years, following a campaign from the group ' Stop Funding Hate ', who were unhappy with the Mail' s coverage of migrant issues and the EU referendum. In September 2017, the Daily Mail partnered with Stage 29 Productions to launch DailyMailTV, an international news program produced by Stage 29 Productions in its studios based in New York City with satellite studios in London, Sydney, DC and Los Angeles. Dr. Phil McGraw (Stage 29 Productions)
1921-719: A variety of magazines and newspapers: Blackwood's Magazine , Blue Peter , Canada Monthly , Country Life , Cunard Magazine , Daily Chronicle , Grand Magazine , Holly Leaves , the Outlook , Pall Mall Gazette , The Daily Mail , The Dolphin , The London Mercury , The Nautical Magazine , The Spectator , The Sphere , The Times Literary Supplement , Westminster Gazette , White Star Magazine , The Windsor Magazine , The Week and The Daily Colonist (BC) and Punch for which she wrote many poems between 1914 and her death in 1954. She later re-published much of this poetry in her many books. In all, with
2034-717: A war, the British nation will say to the Prime Minister with one voice: 'Keep out of it!'" During the Danzig crisis , the Daily Mail was inadvertently used by the German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop to persuade Hitler that Britain would not go to war for the defense of Poland. Ribbentrop had the German Embassy in London headed by Herbert von Dirksen provide translations from pro-appeasement newspapers like
2147-477: A wide range of publications. In later life, she expanded her writing to a number of subjects, fiction and non-fiction. For her services to literature, the British Government awarded her a small pension. Cicely Fox Smith was born 1 February 1882, into a middle-class family in Lymm , near Warrington, England during the latter half of the reign of Queen Victoria . Her father was a barrister and her grandfather
2260-487: Is also a 12-member Lymm Parish Council . Following the 2024 elections, there are 11 Liberal Democrat and 1 independent councillor. The parish council is a successor parish council from the Lymm Urban District Council. Lymm is twinned with Meung-sur-Loire , an ancient village and commune near Orléans , France. Lymm High School accepts students from Lymm and the surrounding villages and hamlets . It
2373-575: Is an annual summer festival celebrating various modes of transport, from canal boats to vintage vehicles, which takes place in the village on the May Queen field. The Bridgewater Canal passes through the centre of Lymm. The Manchester Ship Canal passes to the north, and beyond its route lies the River Mersey . To the east of Lymm the River Bollin flows along the village's border with Warburton and
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#17328586309092486-671: Is based on that of Lymm Ward from the 2011 censuses. 2137 (Lymm) Squadron formed in 1964 as part of the programme to reestablish units that had been closed following the Second World War . They formed at Park Road in Broomedge with a wooden spooner hut. In 2015 this was demolished to make way for a new £300,000 facility which was opened in 2016. In April 2018 the Squadron lead the Royal Air Force Air Cadets action to commemorate
2599-417: Is featured in episode 7 of the 2016 Netflix production of Paranoid . Lymm has its own radio station, Cheshire's Mix 56, created in 2020. It broadcasts 24 hours a day and is run by volunteers. [REDACTED] Media related to Lymm at Wikimedia Commons The Daily Mail 2 Derry Street Defunct The Daily Mail is a British daily middle-market tabloid newspaper published in London. It
2712-518: Is in the centre of the village on Legh Street. It hosts exhibitions related to local history as well as activities for schools and visitors. Morris dancing was taking place in Lymm as early as 1817, often appearing in the village at Rushbearing time throughout the Victorian era . Morris dancing continues to feature within the village with Lymm Morris dancers frequently performing during Rushbearing and at
2825-728: Is listed on the London Stock Exchange . Circulation figures according to the Audit Bureau of Circulations in February 2020 show gross daily sales of 1,134,184 for the Daily Mail . According to a December 2004 survey, 53% of Daily Mail readers voted for the Conservative Party , compared to 21% for Labour and 17% for the Liberal Democrats . The main concern of Viscount Rothermere , the current chairman and main shareholder,
2938-509: Is no good trusting the old politicians. Accordingly, they have formed, as I should like to see our British youth form, a parliamentary party of their own...We can do nothing to check this movement [the Nazis], and I believe it would be a blunder for the British people to take up an attitude of hostility towards it." Starting in December 1931, Rothermere opened up talks with Oswald Mosley under which terms
3051-600: Is represented by Conservative MP Esther McVey , who had a 2.1% majority. Before the 2024 General Election boundary changes, Lymm was a part of the “ bellwether ” Warrington South constituency. On a local council level, the village is split between Lymm South ward and Lymm North and Thelwall ward within the Borough of Warrington . As of the 2024 Warrington Borough Council elections , Lymm South has two councillors, both Liberal Democrat , while Lymm North and Thelwall has three councillors, also all Liberal Democrats. There
3164-490: Is represented by the Lymm Angling Club . Lymm has a number of sports facilities, including: Lymm has a number of cycling (Lymm Velo Club ), triathlon (Cheshire CAT ) and running clubs (Lymm Runners ). The 2011 television series Candy Cabs and the 2015 Sky 1 television series After Hours were filmed in Lymm. A scene from Paul Abbott's TV Series No Offence was filmed in Lymm in 2014. Central Lymm
3277-569: Is that the circulation be maintained. He testified before a House of Lords select committee that "we need to allow editors the freedom to edit", and therefore the newspaper's editor was free to decide editorial policy, including its political allegiance. On 17 November 2021, Ted Verity began a new seven-day role as editor of Mail newspapers, with responsibility for the Daily Mail , The Mail on Sunday and You magazine. The Daily Mail , devised by Alfred Harmsworth (later Viscount Northcliffe) and his brother Harold (later Viscount Rothermere),
3390-600: Is thought to be from the Triassic period. It is on display in the centre of the village. Spud Wood is a recreational area, located next to the Bridgewater Canal , managed by the Woodland Trust . In 2014 the community was granted a licence to run a wood allotment scheme where local residents can coppice and fell wood. There is also a community orchard located in grounds behind Oughtrington Community Centre – run by
3503-545: The National Newspaper of the Year award from The Press Awards nine times since 1994 (as of 2020 ). The Society of Editors selected it as the 'Daily Newspaper of the Year' for 2020. The Daily Mail has been criticised for its unreliability, its printing of sensationalist and inaccurate scare stories about science and medical research, and for instances of plagiarism and copyright infringement . In February 2017,
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3616-551: The Daily Mail and the Daily Express for Hitler's benefit, which had the effect of making it seem that British public opinion was more strongly against going to war for Poland than was actually the case. The British historian Victor Rothwell wrote that the newspapers that Ribbentrop used to provide his press summaries for Hitler such as the Daily Express and the Daily Mail , were out of touch not only with British public opinion, but also with British government policy in regards to
3729-478: The Daily Mail as a means of dealing with Murdoch's offer. Dacre retired as editor of the Daily Mail but remains editor-in-chief of the group. In late 2013, the paper moved its London printing operation from the city's Docklands area to a new £50 million plant in Thurrock , Essex. There are Scottish editions of both the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday , with different articles and columnists. In August 2016,
3842-608: The Daily Mail as an unreliable newspaper, citing the statement published in the Daily Mail in July 1900 during the Boxer Rebellion that "every one of the Europeans was put to the sword in a most atrocious manner" as the Daily Mail maintained that the entire European community in Beijing had been massacred. A month later in August 1900 the Daily Mail published a story about the relief of
3955-568: The Daily Mail began a partnership with The People's Daily , the official newspaper of the Chinese Communist Party . This partnership included publishing articles in the MailOnline produced by The People's Daily. The agreement appeared to observers to give the paper an edge in publishing news stories sourced out of China, but it also led to questions of censorship regarding politically sensitive topics. In November 2016, Lego ended
4068-591: The Daily Mail began printing simultaneously in both Manchester and London, the first national newspaper to do so (in 1899, the Daily Mail had organised special trains to bring the London-printed papers north). The same production method was adopted in 1909 by the Daily Sketch , in 1927 by the Daily Express and eventually by virtually all the other national newspapers. Printing of the Scottish Daily Mail
4181-587: The Daily Mail ran a competition entitled "Why I Like The Blackshirts" under which it awarded one pound every week for the best letter from its readers explaining why they liked the BUF. The paper's support ended after violence at a BUF rally in Kensington Olympia in June 1934. Mosley and many others thought Rothermere had responded to pressure from Jewish businessmen who it was believed had threatened to stop advertising in
4294-482: The Daily Mail would support his party. The talks were drawn out largely because Mosley understood that Rothermere was a megalomaniac who wanted to use the New Party for his own purposes as he sought to impose terms and conditions in exchange for the support of the Daily Mail . Mosley, who was equally egoistical, wanted Rothermere's support, but only on his own terms. Rothermere's 1933 leader "Youth Triumphant" praised
4407-506: The Daily Mail wrote in support of Liz Truss in the July–September 2022 Conservative Party leadership election , calling her chancellor's mini-budget "a true Tory budget" that September. The Scottish Daily Mail was published as a separate title from Edinburgh starting in December 1946. The circulation was poor though, falling to below 100,000 and the operation was rebased to Manchester in December 1968. The Scottish Daily Mail
4520-749: The Daily Mail 's pro-German coverage of the Saarland referendum , under which the people of the Saarland had the choices of voting to remain under the rule of the League of Nations, join France, or rejoin Germany. In March 1935, impressed by the arguments put forward by Ribbentrop for the return of the former German colonies in Africa, Rothermere published a leader entitled "Germany Must Have Elbow Room". In his leader, Rothermere argued that
4633-458: The English Misplaced Pages banned the use of the Daily Mail as a reliable source. The Mail was originally a broadsheet but switched to a compact format on 3 May 1971, the 75th anniversary of its founding. On this date it also absorbed the Daily Sketch , which had been published as a tabloid by the same company. The publisher of the Mail , the Daily Mail and General Trust (DMGT),
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4746-686: The James Bay neighbourhood of Victoria at the southern tip of Vancouver Island , working as a typist for the BC Lands Department and later for an attorney on the waterfront. Her spare time was spent roaming nearby wharves and alleys, talking to residents and sailors alike. She listened to and learned from the sailors' tales until she too was able to speak with that authoritative nautical air that pervades her written work. On 23 November 1913, Smith, with her mother and sister, arrived home in Liverpool aboard
4859-545: The Mirror Group , was founded in 1919 by the first Lord Rothermere, but later sold). Knighted in 1982, Sir David English became editor-in-chief and chairman of Associated Newspapers in 1992 after Rupert Murdoch had attempted to hire Evening Standard editor Paul Dacre as editor of The Times . The Evening Standard was then part of the Associated Newspapers group, and Dacre was appointed to succeed English at
4972-597: The Royal Air Force centenary by travelling to the first RAF airfield at Saint-Omer in France and parading on behalf of the RAF and Ministry of Defence . Association football is played in Lymm, there are adult and junior teams playing at Lymm Rovers F.C. and another junior team – Lymm Piranhas J.F.C. . Lymm Rugby Union Club fields four teams on a regular basis. There is angling at Lymm Dam and at several other fisheries including Heatley Mere and Meadow View. Angling
5085-702: The Treaty of Versailles was too harsh towards the Reich and claimed that the German economy was being crippled by the loss of the German colonial empire in Africa as he argued that without African colonies to exploit that the German economic recovery from the Great Depression was fragile and shallow. During the Spanish Civil War , the Daily Mail ran a photo-essay on 27 July 1936 by Ferdinand Touchy entitled "The Red Carmens,
5198-423: The White Star Line steamer Teutonic on the eve of World War I . She and her family then settled in Hampshire. She soon put her experiences to use in a great outpouring of poetry, some of it clearly focused on supporting England's war efforts. Much of her poetry was from the point of view of the sailor. The detailed nautical content of her poems made it easy to understand why so many readers assumed that Smith
5311-552: The major British dailies . Uniquely for a British daily newspaper, women make up the majority (52–55%) of its readership. It had an average daily circulation of 1.13 million copies in February 2020. Between April 2019 and March 2020 it had an average daily readership of approximately 2.18 million, of whom approximately 1.41 million were in the ABC1 demographic and 0.77 million in the C2DE demographic. Its website had more than 218 million unique visitors per month in 2020. The Daily Mail has won several awards, including receiving
5424-494: The 1940s she began writing children's sea stories with her sister Margaret (Madge) Scott Smith, other travel books, history books, a book about ship models, at least one biography titled Grace Darling, and contributed to and edited many collections. The fine art work of her older brother Philip Wilson Smith, known at the time for his etchings of Elizabethan architecture and oil paintings, illustrates many of her poetry and prose books. Her literary outpourings were such as to persuade
5537-440: The Beam Education Trust in May 2021: The fourth primary school is Cherry Tree Primary School, located in the southern part of Lymm, and was rated as 'Good' at its last Ofsted inspection in 2024. The Manchester Japanese School (マンチェスター日本人補習授業校 Manchesutā Nihonjin Hoshū Jugyō Kō ), a weekend Japanese educational programme , is held at the Language Centre at Lymm High School. Lymm Heritage Centre, which opened in June 2017,
5650-450: The Conservative Party. The rise of the new party dominated the newspaper, and, even though Beaverbrook soon withdrew, Rothermere continued to campaign. Vice Admiral Ernest Augustus Taylor fought the first by-election for the United Empire Party in October, defeating the official Conservative candidate by 941 votes. Baldwin's position was now in doubt, but in 1931 Duff Cooper won the key by-election at St George's, Westminster , beating
5763-407: The Conservatives pulling out of the coalition, causing Lloyd George's downfall and with Britain backing down as the British agreed to pull their troops out of Turkey. Rothermere had a fundamentally elitist conception of politics, believing that the natural leaders of Britain were upper class men like himself, and he strongly disapproved of the decision to grant women the right to vote together with
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#17328586309095876-398: The Danzig crisis. The press summaries Ribbentrop provided were particularly important as Ribbentrop had managed to convince Hitler that the British government secretly controlled the British press, and just as in Germany, nothing appeared in the British press that the British government did not want to appear. On 5 May 1946, the Daily Mail celebrated its Golden Jubilee. Winston Churchill
5989-671: The Government to award her, at the age of 67, a modest pension for "her services to literature." Smith kept writing to the end of her life about many things and many places but always with the accuracy and knowledge of an expert. She even chose her own gravestone epitaph, an extract from one of Walter Raleigh 's poems: But from this earth This grave This dust My lord shall raise me up I trust Cicely Fox Smith died on 8 April 1954, in Poltimore House Nursing Home, Poltimore, Devon, about 15-20 miles from Bow where she'd been living with her sister Madge. Over 70 of Smith's poems have been adapted for singing and have been recorded, primarily in
6102-415: The Harmsworth Press. Prime Minister H. H. Asquith accused the paper of being disloyal to the country. When Kitchener died, the Mail reported it as a great stroke of luck for the British Empire. The paper was critical of Asquith's conduct of the war, and he resigned on 5 December 1916. His successor David Lloyd George asked Northcliffe to be in his cabinet, hoping it would prevent him from criticising
6215-400: The Headquarters, King's Road, Chelsea, London, S.W." The Spectator condemned Rothermere's article commenting that, "... the Blackshirts, like the Daily Mail , appeal to people unaccustomed to thinking. The average Daily Mail reader is a potential Blackshirt ready made. When Lord Rothermere tells his clientele to go and join the Fascists some of them pretty certainly will." In April 1934,
6328-502: The Liberals were too pusillanimous in their response to the Tirpitz plan. In 1906, the paper offered £10,000 for the first flight from London to Manchester , followed by a £1,000 prize for the first flight across the English Channel . Punch magazine thought the idea preposterous and offered £10,000 for the first flight to Mars , but by 1910 both the Mail ' s prizes had been won. The paper continued to award prizes for aviation sporadically until 1930. Virginia Woolf criticised
6441-399: The RAF. Rothermere and the Mail were also editorially sympathetic to Oswald Mosley and the British Union of Fascists . Rothermere wrote an article titled "Hurrah for the Blackshirts" published in the Daily Mail on 15 January 1934, praising Mosley for his "sound, commonsense, Conservative doctrine", and pointing out that: "Young men may join the British Union of Fascists by writing to
6554-472: The Spanish Republic, which had preached gender equality. For Touchy, women to fight in a war was to reject their femininity, leading him to label these women as monstrous as he accused the "Red Carmens" of "sexual depravity", writing with utter horror at the possibility of these women engaging in premarital sex, which for him marked the beginning of the end of "civilisation" itself. The British historian Caroline Brothers wrote that Touchy's article said much about
6667-466: The Turkish demand that the British leave their occupation zone with Churchill sending out telegrams asking for Canada, Australia and New Zealand to all send troops for the expected war. George Ward Price , the "extra-special correspondent" of The Daily Mail was sympathetic towards the beleaguered British garrison at Chanak, but was also sympathetic towards the Turks. Ward Price wrote in his articles that Mustafa Kemal did not have wider ambitions to restore
6780-426: The United Empire Party candidate, Sir Ernest Petter , supported by Rothermere, and this broke the political power of the press barons. In 1927, the celebrated picture of the year Morning by Dod Procter was bought by the Daily Mail for the Tate Gallery . In 1927, Rothermere, under the influence of his Hungarian mistress, Countess Stephanie von Hohenlohe , took up the cause of Hungary as his own, publishing
6893-445: The United Kingdom , dismissed the Daily Mail as "a newspaper produced by office boys for office boys." By 1902, at the end of the Boer Wars , the circulation was over a million, making it the largest in the world. With Harold running the business side of the operation and Alfred as editor, the Mail from the start adopted an imperialist political stance, taking a patriotic line in the Second Boer War , leading to claims that it
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#17328586309097006-428: The alleged dangers said to be posted by Chinese immigration to the United Kingdom. The "Yellow Peril" theme came to be abandoned because the Anglo-German naval race led to a more plausible threat to the British empire to be presented. In common with other Conservative papers, the Daily Mail used the Anglo-German naval race as a way of criticising the Liberal governments that were in power from 1906 onward, claiming that
7119-425: The borough of Trafford . A number of small brooks feed the popular tourist attraction of Lymm Dam , built in 1824 to enable the construction of the Stockport –Warrington Road (now known as the A56 ). Lymm railway station was on Whitbarrow Road. It opened on 1 November 1853 as part of the Warrington and Altrincham Junction railway . There was a further station at Heatley , on Mill Lane, for salt and lead. To
7232-403: The defeat of Ramsay MacDonald 's Labour Party in the 1924 general election , held four days later. Unlike most newspapers, the Mail quickly took up an interest on the new medium of radio. In 1928, the newspaper established an early example of an offshore radio station aboard a yacht, both as a means of self-promotion and as a way to break the BBC's monopoly. However, the project failed as
7345-409: The detention of political prisoners. Alongside his support for Nazi Germany as the "bulwark against Bolshevism", Rothermere used The Daily Mail as a forum to champion his pet cause, namely a stronger Royal Air Force (RAF). Rothermere had decided that aerial war was the technology of the future, and throughout the 1930s The Daily Mail was described as "obsessional" in pressing for more spending on
7458-410: The east, the track ran via Dunham into Broadheath and the Manchester network. To the west, the track used to run into Warrington, via Latchford , and the tar processing on Loushers Lane, then into Bank Quay Low Level. The line closed to passengers on 10 September 1962; it was officially closed to all types of traffic on 7 July 1985, but lasted a few months. Then it became financially unviable, and
7571-435: The end of the franchise requirements that disfranchised lower-class men. Feeling that British women and lower-class men were not really capable of understanding the issues, Rothermere started to lose faith in democracy. In October 1922, the Daily Mail approved of the Fascist " March on Rome " as the newspaper argued that democracy had failed in Italy, thus requiring Benito Mussolini to set up his Fascist dictatorship to save
7684-444: The equipment was not able to provide a decent signal from overboard, and the transmitter was replaced by a set of speakers. The yacht spent the summer entertaining beach-goers with gramophone records interspersed with publicity for the newspaper and its insurance fund. The Mail was also a frequent sponsor on continental commercial radio stations targeted towards Britain throughout the 1920s and 1930s and periodically voiced support for
7797-462: The forces of Mahomet [the Prophet Mohammed] vainly hurled themselves against". Rothemere argued that it was unjust that the "noble" Hungarians should be under the rule of "cruder and more barbaric races", by which he meant the peoples of Romania, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia. In his leader, he advocated that Hungary retake all of the lands lost under the Treaty of Trianon, which caused immediate concern in Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia and Romania, where it
7910-411: The gender politics of The Daily Mail , which ran his photo-essay and presumably of The Daily Mail' s readers who were expected to approve of the article. In a 1937 article, George Ward Price , the special correspondent of The Daily Mail , approvingly wrote: "The sense of national unity-the Volkgemeinschaft -to which the Führer constantly appeals in his speeches is not a rhetorical invention, but
8023-456: The government. Northcliffe declined. According to Piers Brendon : Light-hearted stunts enlivened Northcliffe, such as the 'Hat campaign' in the winter of 1920. This was a contest with a prize of £100 for a new design of hat – a subject in which Northcliffe took a particular interest. There were 40,000 entries and the winner was a cross between a top hat and a bowler christened the Daily Mail Sandringham Hat . The paper subsequently promoted
8136-471: The king's remarks. In fact, Rothermere's "Justice for Hungary" campaign, which he continued until February 1939, was a source of disquiet for the Foreign Office, which complained that British relations with Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia and Romania were constantly stained as the leaders of those nations continued to harbor the belief that Rothermere was in some way speaking for the British government. One of
8249-516: The leader to warn that Churchill's efforts to call upon the Dominions for help for the expected war were endangering the unity of the British empire. Britain was governed by a Liberal-Conservative coalition, and the opposition of the Daily Mail , which normally supported the Conservatives, caused many Tories to reconsider continuing the coalition government of Lloyd George. The Chanek crisis ended with
8362-473: The legalisation of private radio, something that would not happen until 1973. From 1923, Lord Rothermere and the Daily Mail formed an alliance with the other great press baron, Lord Beaverbrook . Their opponent was the Conservative Party politician and leader Stanley Baldwin . Rothermere in a leader conceded that Fascist methods were "not suited to a country like our own", but qualified his remark with
8475-530: The lost frontiers of the Ottoman Empire and only wanted the Allies to leave Asia Minor. The Daily Mail ran a huge banner headline on 21 September 1922 that stated "Get Out Of Chanak!" In a leader (editorial), the Daily Mail wrote that the views of Churchill, who very much favored going to war with Turkey, were "bordering on insanity". The same leader noted that Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King of Canada had rejected Churchill's request for troops, which led
8588-561: The major themes of The Daily Mail was the opposition to the Indian independence movement and much of Rothermere's opposition to Baldwin was based upon the belief that Baldwin was not sufficiently opposed to Indian independence. In 1930, Rothermere wrote a series of leaders under the title "If We Lose India!", claiming that granting India independence would be the end of Britain as a great power. In addition, Rothermere predicted that Indian independence would end worldwide white supremacy as inevitably,
8701-423: The nautical folk song tradition. Books by C. Fox Smith include: Lymm Lymm ( / ˈ l ɪ m / LIM ) is a village and civil parish in the Borough of Warrington , Cheshire , England . It incorporates the hamlets of Booths Hill, Broomedge, Church Green, Deansgreen, Heatley, Heatley Heath, Little Heatley, Oughtrington, Reddish, Rushgreen and Statham. At the 2021 United Kingdom census it had
8814-403: The new Nazi regime's accomplishments, and was subsequently used as propaganda by them. In it, Rothermere predicted that "The minor misdeeds of individual Nazis would be submerged by the immense benefits the new regime is already bestowing upon Germany". Journalist John Simpson , in a book on journalism, suggested that Rothermere was referring to the violence against Jews and Communists rather than
8927-463: The new edition, she published well over 660 poems. In June 2012, the first edition of The Complete Poetry of Cicely Fox Smith , edited by Charles Ipcar (US) and James Saville (UK), was published by Little Red Tree Publishing in the US, and contained all the poems known at that time. The second edition (2015) added 74 new poems, some published for the first time, thanks to the work of numerous researchers around
9040-499: The newspaper supported the Italian occupation of Corfu and condemned the British government for at least rhetorically opposing the Italian attack on Greece. On 25 October 1924, the Daily Mail published the Zinoviev letter , which indicated Moscow was directing British Communists toward violent revolution. It was later proven to be a hoax. At the time many on the left blamed the letter for
9153-410: The paper if it continued to back an anti-Semitic party. The paper editorially continued to oppose the arrival of Jewish refugees escaping Germany, describing their arrival as "a problem to which the Daily Mail has repeatedly pointed." In December 1934, Rothermere visited Berlin as the guest of Joachim von Ribbentrop. During his visit, Rothermere was publicly thanked in a speech by Josef Goebbels for
9266-557: The paper slackened and there were periods when he was not involved. His physical and mental health declined rapidly in 1921, and he died in August 1922 at age 57. His brother Lord Rothermere took full control of the paper. In the Chanak Crisis of 1922, Britain almost went to war with Turkey. The Prime Minister David Lloyd George , supported by the War Secretary Winston Churchill , were determined to go to war over
9379-687: The peoples of India as ignorant, barbarous, filthy and fanatical, arguing that the Raj was necessary to save India from the Indians, whom The Daily Mail argued were not capable of handling independence. Lord Rothermere was a friend of Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler , and directed the Mail's editorial stance towards them in the early 1930s. Lord Rothermere took an extreme anti-Communist line, which led him to own an estate in Hungary to which he might escape to in case Britain
9492-657: The peoples of the other British colonies in Asia, Africa, and the Americas would also demand independence. The decision of the Labour Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald to open the Round Table Conferences in 1930 was greeted by The Daily Mail as the beginning of the end of Britain as a great power. As part of its crusade against Indian independence, The Daily Mail published a series of articles portraying
9605-713: The same local group. The M56 (junctions 7, 8 and 9) and M6 (junction 19 and 20) motorways are both within 3 miles (4.8 km) of Lymm. The conjunction of these motorways with the A50 is known as the Lymm Interchange, and hosts a service station known as the Poplar 2000 services, a well-used truck stop . The A56 also passes just south of the village, connecting the nearby towns of Warrington and Altrincham . The CAT5/5A buses to Lymm from Warrington and Altrincham are frequent on weekdays and Saturdays. Lymm Historic Transport Day
9718-644: The social order. In 1923, Rothermere published a leader in The Daily Mail entitled "What Europe Owes Mussolini", where he wrote about his "profound admiration" for Mussolini, whom he praised for "in saving Italy he stopped the inroads of Bolshevism which would have left Europe in ruins...in my judgment he saved the entire Western world. It was because Mussolini overthrew Bolshevism in Italy that it collapsed in Hungary and ceased to gain adherents in Bavaria and Prussia". In 1923,
9831-571: The statement, "if our northern cities became Bolshevik we would need them". In an article in 1927 celebrating five years of Fascism in Italy, it was argued that there were parallels between modern Britain and Italy in the last years of the Liberal era as it was argued Italy had a series of weak liberal and conservative governments that made concessions to the Italian Socialist Party such as granting universal male suffrage in 1912 whose "only result
9944-591: The tracks and sleepers were rapidly lifted. Lymm today has no railway station; the closest stations are at Glazebrook , Birchwood , Warrington , Knutsford and Altrincham . Today the old Railway through Lymm forms a good stretch of the Trans Pennine Trail , with a ranger station at Statham, near the centre of the village. In 2022, upgrade work to certain sections of the trail commenced to provide updated all weather surfaces for users. Note: statistics expressed as percentages may not add up to 100%. Census data
10057-525: The various annual village festivals including the Lymm May Queen Festival, Lymm Festival and Lymm Dickensian Festival . Lymm village centre is a designated conservation area , notable for its historic buildings, both listed and unlisted including the French-style terracotta former town hall , St Peter's Church and Lymm Hall . Another is Oughtrington Hall and Lodge (formerly owned by
10170-562: The village was voted as one of Britain's 'Most Desirable Towns' according to The Daily Telegraph , and in November 2023 it was voted as the third 'Most Desirable' place to live in the North of England according to the Telegraph . |thumb|The Official Seal of Lymm Urban District Council]] Lymm currently lies within the parliamentary constituency of Tatton . As of the 2024 General Election it
10283-568: The wearing of it but without much success. In 1919, Alcock and Brown made the first flight across the Atlantic, winning a prize of £10,000 from the Daily Mail . In 1930 the Mail made a great story of another aviation stunt, awarding another prize of £10,000 to Amy Johnson for making the first solo flight from England to Australia. The Daily Mail had begun the Ideal Home Exhibition in 1908. At first, Northcliffe had disdained this as
10396-577: The western Legations in Beijing, where the westerners in Beijing together with the thousands of Chinese Christians had been under siege by the Boxers. Before the outbreak of the First World War , the paper was accused of warmongering when it reported that Germany was planning to crush the British Empire . When war began, Northcliffe's call for conscription was seen by some as controversial, although he
10509-510: The women who burn churches". Touchy took a series of photographs of Spanish women who joined the Worker's Militia marching up to the front with rifles and ammunition pouches over their shoulders. In an essay that has been widely criticised as misogynistic, Touchy wrote: "The Spanish women has been a creature to admire or make work domestically, to marry or let slip away into a religious order...65 percent were illiterate". Touchy declared his horror at
10622-492: The world, including Jake Wade and Danny McLeod. Included in the second edition is an important introduction by Marcia Phillips McGowan, PhD, (Distinguished Professor Emerita of English, Eastern Connecticut State University), in which she reclaims Cicely Fox Smith in the continuum of important women poets of the early 20 century. Other books by Smith included three romantic novels, numerous short stories and articles, as well as several books describing "sailortown." She also published
10735-406: The young Spanish women had rejected the traditional patriarchal system, writing with disgust that the "direct action girls" of the Worker's Militia do not want to be like their mothers, submissive and obedient to men. Touchy called these young women "Red Carmens", associating them with the destructive heroine of the opera Carmen and with Communism, writing the "Red Carmens" proved the amorality of
10848-435: Was a clergyman. Smith well might have been expected to have a brief education and then to settle down to life as a homemaker either for her family or her marriage partner. She was well educated at Manchester High School for Girls from 1894 to 1897, where she described herself later as "something of a rebel," and started writing poems at a comparatively early age. In an article for the school magazine Smith later wrote "I have
10961-458: Was absorbed by its sister title, and English became editor of the Mail , a post in which he remained for more than 20 years. English transformed it from a struggling newspaper selling half as many copies as its mid-market rival, the Daily Express , to a formidable publication, whose circulation rose to surpass that of the Express by the mid-1980s. English was knighted in 1982. The paper enjoyed
11074-594: Was an agricultural village until the Industrial Revolution , which brought the Bridgewater Canal and the Warrington and Altrincham Junction Railway to the village. The village played a prominent role within the salt extraction industry, gold beating industry and cotton industry (many of its inhabitants were fustian cutters ). In 2017, Lymm was voted as one of the 'Best Places to Live' according to The Times and The Sunday Times list. In June 2023,
11187-559: Was believed that his leader reflected British government policy. Additionally, he took up the cause of the Sudeten Germans, stating that the Sudetenland should go to Germany. The Czechoslovak Foreign Minister Edvard Beneš was so concerned that he visited London to meet King George V, a man who detested Rothermere and used language that was so crude, vulgar and "unkingy" that Beneš had to report to Prague that he could not possibly repeat
11300-502: Was conquered by the Soviet Union. Shortly after the Nazis scored their breakthrough in the Reichstag elections on 14 September 1930 , winning 107 seats, Rothermere went to Munich to interview Hitler. In an article published in Daily Mail on 24 September 1930, Rothemere wrote: "These young Germans have discovered, as I am glad to note that the young men and women of England are discovering, that
11413-462: Was first published on 4 May 1896. It was an immediate success. It cost a halfpenny at a time when other London dailies cost one penny, and was more populist in tone and more concise in its coverage than its rivals. The planned issue was 100,000 copies, but the print run on the first day was 397,215, and additional printing facilities had to be acquired to sustain a circulation that rose to 500,000 in 1899. Lord Salisbury , 19th-century Prime Minister of
11526-532: Was founded in 1896. As of 2020 , it has the highest circulation of paid newspapers in the UK. Its sister paper The Mail on Sunday was launched in 1982, a Scottish edition was launched in 1947, and an Irish edition in 2006. Content from the paper appears on the MailOnline news website , although the website is managed separately and has its own editor. The paper is owned by the Daily Mail and General Trust . Jonathan Harmsworth, 4th Viscount Rothermere ,
11639-567: Was judged as 'Good' in its 2024 Ofsted inspection with the sixth form provision being judged as ‘Outstanding’. In December 2023, The Sunday Times ranked the school as one of the top five secondary schools in the North West and the top secondary school in the Warrington area. Lymm is also in the catchment for Altrincham Grammar School for Boys and Altrincham Grammar School for Girls . There are four primary schools within Lymm. The following three primary schools formed as an Academy by
11752-493: Was male. One correspondent wrote to her as "Capt. Fox Smith" and when she tried to correct him he wrote back "You say you are not a master but you must be a practical seaman. I can always detect the hand of an amateur." He was almost correct. She was familiar with life at sea as few armchair amateur would ever be. It was only when she was well established that she started routinely using the by-line "Miss C. Fox Smith" or "Cicely Fox Smith." Smith initially had her poetry published in
11865-405: Was named as executive producer. The program was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Entertainment News Program in 2018. In May 2020, the Daily Mail ended The Sun's 42-year reign as the United Kingdom's highest-circulation newspaper. The Daily Mail recorded average daily sales of 980,000 copies, with the Mail on Sunday recording weekly sales of 878,000. In August 2022,
11978-467: Was not reporting the issues of the day objectively. The Mail also set out to entertain its readers with human interest stories, serials, features and competitions. It was the first newspaper to recognise the potential market of the female reader with a women's interest section and hired one of the first female war correspondents Sarah Wilson who reported during the Second Boer War. In 1900,
12091-405: Was outraged by Baldwin's centre-right style of Conservatism and his decision to respond to almost universal suffrage by expanding the appeal of the Conservative Party. Far from seeing giving women the right to vote as the disaster Rothermere believed that it was, Baldwin set out to appeal to female voters, a tactic that was politically successful, but led Rothermere to accuse Baldwing of "feminising"
12204-450: Was rebuilt in the 19th century after falling into disrepair. Lymm Baptist Church was built in 1850 and an attached Sunday school was built in 1851. Lymm Cross , usually known simply as "the Cross", is a Grade I listed structure dating from the 17th century, restored in 1897. A “ dinosaur ” (reptile) footprint was discovered in the Victorian era , in one of Lymm's many quarries , which
12317-459: Was relaunched in 1995; it is printed in Glasgow. It had an average circulation of 67,900 in the area of Scotland in December 2019. The Daily Mail officially entered the Irish market with the launch of a local version of the paper on 6 February 2006; free copies of the paper were distributed on that day in some locations to publicise the launch. Its masthead differed from that of UK versions by having
12430-505: Was switched from Edinburgh to the Deansgate plant in Manchester in 1968 and, for a while, The People was also printed on the Mail presses in Deansgate. In 1987, printing at Deansgate ended, and the northern editions were thereafter printed at other Associated Newspapers plants. For a time in the early 20th century, the paper championed vigorously against the " Yellow Peril ", warning of
12543-476: Was the chief guest at the banquet and toasted it with a speech. Newsprint rationing in the Second World War had forced the Daily Mail to cut its size to four pages, but the size gradually increased through the 1950s. In 1947, when the Raj ended, the Daily Mail featured a banner headline reading "India: 11 words mark the end of an empire". During the Suez crisis of 1956, the Daily Mail consistently took
12656-560: Was to hasten the arrival of disorder". In the same article, Baldwin was compared to the Italian prime ministers of the Liberal era as the article argued that the General Strike of 1926 should never have been allowed to occur and the Baldwin government was condemned "for the feebleness which it tries to placate opposition by being more Socialist than the Socialists". In 1928, the Daily Mail in
12769-451: Was vindicated when conscription was introduced in 1916. On 21 May 1915, Northcliffe criticised Lord Kitchener , the Secretary of State for War , regarding weapons and munitions. Kitchener was considered by some to be a national hero. The paper's circulation dropped from 1,386,000 to 238,000. Fifteen hundred members of the London Stock Exchange burned unsold copies and called for a boycott of
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