Based in Glasgow, the Scottish Daily Record had a significant working-class readership and a print run of half a million copies a day.

1961 trainee

It’s style of journalism was typical of its time: nothing too wordy, nothing too demanding of its readers, but plenty of news and gossip, and plenty of opportunities for a young left-wing writer like Paul to develop a more popular writing style than Oxford had encouraged. He stayed in Glasgow for three years, before returning to London and the national dailies produced in Fleet Street. 

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