Punch also revealed that high-street banks routinely abandoned confidential information inside bin-bags deposited on the street, rather than shredding it.
[1] Among the journalists who worked on the magazine during Steen's editorship were Jerry Hayes who covered politics, Dominic Midgley who was the deputy editor, John McVicar who wrote about crime, Nick Foulkes (luxury goods), Jono Coleman (restaurant critic), George Best (football), James Hipwell and Anil Bhoyrul (finance) after they left the Daily Mirror.
The paper's then editor and now television presenter Piers Morgan called Steen "the world's most mischievous journalist".
In November 2008, Steen won the Association of Publishing Agencies' Effectiveness Awards Journalist of the Year gong for his writing on Waitrose Food Illustrated.
His work for the John Brown-published magazine included an interview with Marcus Wareing regarding his ex-boss Gordon Ramsay, which was picked up by a number of national newspapers.