It pioneered computer photo-typesetting and full-colour offset printing at a time when national newspapers were still using Linotype machines, letterpress and could only reproduce photographs in black and white.

Launched by regional newspaper entrepreneur Eddy Shah, it was bought by Tiny Rowland's conglomerate Lonrho within four months.

[citation needed] Today was based in 70 Vauxhall Bridge Road, Pimlico, London, prior to moving to Wapping.

[6] In 1996, Hugh Grant won damages from News UK over what his lawyers called a "highly defamatory" article in January 1995.

The newspaper had falsely claimed that Grant verbally abused a young extra with a "foul-mouthed tongue lashing" on the set of The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain.