Sydney Jacobson, Baron Jacobson

During World War II Jacobson served with the Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge's Own) and rose to the rank of major.

After the war he returned to journalism and worked as a feature writer on the pioneering photojournalistic magazine Picture Post under its influential editor Tom Hopkinson.

By 1974 Jacobson was deputy chairman of IPC working under his friend and colleague of many years Hugh Cudlipp.

During one of the two General Elections that year Jacobson was responsible for at least two of the Daily Mirror's best-known front pages - one bore nothing but a photograph of the then Prime Minister Edward Heath and the words, "AND NOW HE HAS THE NERVE TO ASK FOR A VOTE OF CONFIDENCE."

At a thanksgiving service at the "journalists' church" St Bride's off of Fleet Street in London Hugh Cudlipp used his address to launch an attack on the state of British tabloid newspapers.