. We aren't sure whether we are delighted or horrified to discover there was a mistake in only the second ever edition, where the date has mysteriously remained 28th September. It would be a very easy copy&paste error, but before the days of copying and pasting, so we were clearly ahead of our time even then!
The first issue of Daily Information, produced on 28th Sept 1964.
The Possible Origins of Daily Information
Reproduced by kind permission of NOA News, The Quarterly Journal of the North Oxford Association.
John Rose, founder editor of Daily Information, was persuaded to reveal some of its secrets for NOA News. Can we really believe that it had an independent existence before becoming an indispensable feature of the Oxford scene? Imagining Oxford without Daily Info is like imagining it without Magdalen Bridge...
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