Fleet Street road sign

Fleet Street is a street in London, England named after the River Fleet. London ( ˈlʌndən is the capital and largest urban area in the United Kingdom. England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland The River Fleet is the largest of London 's subterranean rivers It formerly flowed on the surface It was the home of the British press until the 1980s. This article is a list of Newspapers in the United Kingdom. UK daily newspapers Traditionally newspapers could be split into serious-minded newspapers usually referred Even though the last major British news office, Reuters, left in 2005, the street's name continues to be used as a metonym for the British national press (comparable to Kochstraße for the German national press). This article is primarily about Reuters prior to its 2008 merger with Thomson A street name or odonym is an identifying name given to a Street. In Rhetoric, metonymy (mɨˈtɒnɨmi is the use of a word for a concept or object associated with the concept/object originally denoted by the word The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located Journalism is the profession of writing or communicating formally employed by publications and broadcasters for the benefit of a particular Community of people

History and location

Fleet Street in 1890

Fleet Street began as the road from the City of London to the City of Westminster. Year 1890 ( MDCCCXC) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common For London as a whole see the main article London. The City of London is a geographically The City of Westminster ( is a borough of London with city status. The length of Fleet Street marks the expansion of the City in the 14th century. At the east end of the street is where the river Fleet flowed against the mediæval walls of London; at the west end is the Temple Bar which marks the current city limits, stretched to that point when the land and property of the Knights Templar were acquired. London Wall was the Defensive wall built by the Romans around Londinium, their strategically important port town on the River Thames in England Temple Bar is the barrier (real or imaginary marking the westernmost extent of the City of London on the road to Westminster, where Fleet Street (extending The Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon (Pauperes commilitones Christi Templique Solomonici commonly known as the Knights Templar or the Order

To the south lies the complex of buildings known as The Temple, formerly the property of the Knights Templar, which houses two of the four Inns of Court, the Inner Temple and the Middle Temple. The Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon (Pauperes commilitones Christi Templique Solomonici commonly known as the Knights Templar or the Order The Inns of Court in London are the professional associations to one of which every barrister in England and Wales (and those judges who were formerly barristers The Honourable Society of the Inner Temple is one of the four Inns of Court around the Royal Courts of Justice in London which may call members to The Honourable Society of the Middle Temple is one of the four Inns of Court exclusively entitled to call their members to the English Bar as Barristers There are many lawyers' offices in the vicinity.

Ludgate Circus

Publishing started in Fleet Street around 1500 when William Caxton's apprentice, Wynkyn de Worde, set up a printing shop near Shoe Lane, while at around the same time Richard Pynson set up as publisher and printer next to St Dunstan's church. Ludgate Circus is a location in the City of London at the intersection of Farringdon Street /New Bridge Street (the A201, leading to Blackfriars Wynkyn de Worde (also Wynken; originally Jan van Wynkyn) (d 1534 was a printer and publisher known for his work with William Caxton, and is recognized Richard Pynson (born 1448 in Normandy, died 1529 was one of the first printers of English books The church of St Dunstan-in-the-West is in Fleet Street in London. More printers and publishers followed, mainly supplying the legal trade in the four Law Inns around the area. In March 1702, the world's first daily newspaper, The Daily Courant, was published in Fleet Street from premises above the White Hart Inn. The Daily Courant was the first regular daily Newspaper to be published in the United Kingdom.

At Temple Bar to the west, as Fleet Street crosses the boundary out of the City of London, it becomes the Strand; to the east, past Ludgate Circus, it evolves into Ludgate Hill. Temple Bar is the barrier (real or imaginary marking the westernmost extent of the City of London on the road to Westminster, where Fleet Street (extending For London as a whole see the main article London. The City of London is a geographically The Strand is a street in the City of Westminster, London, England. Ludgate Circus is a location in the City of London at the intersection of Farringdon Street /New Bridge Street (the A201, leading to Blackfriars Ludgate Hill is a hill in the City of London, near the old Ludgate, a gate to the City that was taken down with its attached jail in 1780 The nearest tube stations are Temple, Chancery Lane, and Blackfriars and it is very close to City Thameslink station. The London Underground is a Metro system serving a large part of Greater London and neighbouring areas of Essex, Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire Temple is a London Underground station in the City of Westminster, between Victoria Embankment and Temple Place Chancery Lane is a London Underground station in central London. London Blackfriars station is a London Underground and National Rail station in the City of London. Services The station is served by trains on the Thameslink route whose franchise has been operated by First Capital Connect since 2006 Chancery Lane and Fetter Lane are at the western end of the street. Chancery Lane is a principal thoroughfare of the City of London. Fetter Lane is a street in the ward of Farringdon Without in London England.

Fleet Street is a location on the London version of the Monopoly board game. Monopoly is a Board game published by Parker Brothers, a subsidiary of Hasbro.

Fleet Street is also famous for the barber Sweeney Todd, traditionally said to have lived and worked in Fleet Street (he is sometimes called "the Demon Barber of Fleet Street"). Sweeney Todd is a semi-fictional character who first appeared as one of the Protagonists of a Penny dreadful serial entitled The String of Pearls An early example of a serial killer, the character appears in various English language works starting in the mid-19th century. There are some records that show he actually existed, but the authenticity of these is disputed.

Present day

Fleet Street in 2005

Fleet Street is now more associated with the Law and its courts and barristers' chambers, many of which are in alleys off Fleet Street itself, almost all of the newspapers thereabouts having moved to Wapping and Canary Wharf. Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Wapping (pronounced 'Wopping' is a place in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets which forms part of the Docklands to the east of the City of London. Canary Wharf is a large business and shopping development in London, located in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, centred on the old West India Docks The former offices of The Daily Telegraph, drawn upon as a source by Evelyn Waugh in his comic novel Scoop, are now the London headquarters of the investment bank Goldman Sachs. For "The Daily Telegraph" in Australia see The Daily Telegraph (Australia. Arthur Evelyn St John Waugh (ˈiːvlɪn ˈwɔː (28 October 1903 &ndash 10 April 1966 was an English Writer, best known for such darkly humorous and Scoop is a 1938 novel by English writer Evelyn Waugh, a Satire of sensational journalism and foreign correspondence The Goldman Sachs Group Inc, or simply Goldman Sachs ( is a large global Bank holding company that engages in Investment banking securities C. Hoare & Co, England's oldest privately owned bank, has had its place of business here since 1690. C Hoare & Co is England's oldest privately owned Bank. Founded in 1672 by Sir Richard Hoare, C An informal measure of City takeover business employed by financial editors is the number of taxis waiting outside such law firms as Freshfields at 11pm: a long line is held to suggest a large number of mergers and acquisitions in progress. Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP (often simply referred to as Freshfields) is a large international Law firm providing business law advice throughout Europe ^[1]

The French-owned international news and photo agency Agence France Presse is still based in Fleet Street, as is the London office of D.C. Thomson & Co., creator of The Beano. Agence France-Presse ( AFP) is the oldest News agency in the world and one of the three largest with Associated Press and Reuters. D C Thomson & Co Ltd, is a publishing company based in Dundee, Scotland, best known for producing Oor Wullie, The Broons The Beano comic is a long-running British children's comic, published by D Since 1995 Fleet Street has been the home of Wentworth Publishing, an independent publisher of newsletters and courses. In 2006 the Press Gazette returned to Fleet Street. Press Gazette, formerly known as UK Press Gazette (UKPG is a British media trade magazine dedicated to journalism and the press The Associated Press and The Jewish Chronicle remain close by. The Associated Press ( AP) is an American News agency. The AP is a Cooperative owned by its contributing Newspapers radio The Jewish Chronicle (" The JC " is a London-based Jewish Newspaper. The Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph have recently returned to the centre of London after exile downriver in Canary Wharf, but are still a few miles away, near Victoria Station. Canary Wharf is a large business and shopping development in London, located in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, centred on the old West India Docks

St Bride's Church, just off the eastern end of Fleet Street, remains the London church most associated with the print industry. St Bride's Church is a church in the City of London, England. A plaque in the church records the vigils held for journalists held hostage in Lebanon in the 1980s and 1990s, including John McCarthy and Terry Anderson. John Patrick McCarthy CBE (born November 26 1956) is a British Journalist who was Kidnapped by Islamic Jihad Terrorists Terry A Anderson (b October 27 1947, Lorain Ohio) is the best known and longest held hostage of a group of Americans believed to be ^[2] In the adjacent, St Brides Lane, is the St Bride Library, specialising in the type and print industry. St Bride Library (formerly known as St Bride Printing Library and St Bride Typographical Library) is a library in London primarily devoted to Printing

Child & Co Bankers, one of the country's oldest private banks and owned by the Royal Bank of Scotland Group plc, is based at 1 Fleet Street.

Culture

The Fleet Street griffin

The term Fleet Street is also used to indicate that a journalist is a member of the generation that worked on newspapers prior to their move away from its vicinity, and is synonymous with a bibulous, collegial tradition characterised by such figures as Paul Callan and Brian Vine. Paul Callan may refer to Paul Callan (journalist, British journalist Paul Callan (attorney, American attorney and television legal commentator Gossip was exchanged over liquid lunches at such hostelries as El Vino, now a haven for lawyers of the Rumpole school. Rumpole of the Bailey is a British Television series created and written by British writer and barrister Sir John Mortimer, Liquid dinners were equally familiar, editors often dining in the Grill of the Savoy Hotel, returning about 10pm to see the first editions of their papers roll off the presses. The Savoy Hotel is a five-star Hotel located on the Strand, in the City of Westminster in Central London that opened on August These were then transported by road to railway stations to catch the night mail expresses to far-flung corners of the United Kingdom and Ireland.

A significant mythology has accreted around Fleet Street, its characters, their scoops – and imaginative expense accounts. The most durable concern, however, stories that were not printed, usually on account of Britain's strict libel laws. Few of the novels referenced below constitute exaggerations, the truth being, in the cliché of the sub-editors on the back benches, "stranger than fiction". According to journalistic lore it was not editors who constituted the heart of Fleet Street but diary writers and gossip columnists, whose stories would often make the front page: the exploits of Diana Princess of Wales provided frequent examples of diary stories transmuted into news and even news features.

Journalists

The content of a Fleet Street newspaper is influenced by its proprietor, editor, journalists and columnists. Many of the owners achieved notoriety, notably Lord Northcliffe, Lord Beaverbrook and Robert Maxwell, all of whom used their papers to support their political agenda, an approach still employed by some present day proprietors. The title Viscount Northcliffe, of St Peter in the County of Kent was created in 1918 in the Peerage of the United Kingdom for the famous press baron Alfred Harmsworth William Maxwell "Max" Aitken 1st Baron Beaverbrook Bt Ian Robert Maxwell MC ( June 10, 1923 – November 5, 1991) was a Czechoslovakian born British Media proprietor Generally newspapers are run on more business-like lines today, with some expectation of profit, or at least manageable losses. Ownership was long considered an honour for which the proprietor was expected to pay: with it came influence, and if exercised responsibly, an honour usually followed.

A number of great editors are still recalled and their dictates followed long after being summoned to the "great newsroom in the sky" as one obituarist put it. They include Arthur Christianson of the Daily Express and Sir John Junor of the Sunday Express. Sir John Donald Brown Junor ( 15 January, 1919 &ndash 3 May, 1997) was a Scottish journalist Of living editors the brief reign of Janet Street-Porter at the Independent on Sunday is still the subject of many anecdotes, some of them true. Janet Street-Porter (born 27 December 1946 is a British media personality Journalist, Television presenter and producer Each editor is supported by department heads such as the foreign editor, news editor, picture editor and chief sub-editor, all of whom attend the morning conference to determine the day's news agenda. Rule number one of Fleet Street journalism is that "The Editor's decision is final". Unless, of course, the proprietor intervenes, as Rupert Murdoch is recorded by his biographers as doing on a number of occasions. is gay Bold text' Keith Rupert Murdoch', AC, KCSG (born Melbourne, March 11 1931 usually known as Rupert Murdoch, is an Australian-American

By consent the elite of journalists are its foreign and war correspondents, of whom there are many fewer than formerly. There is also a highly paid category of experienced writers, the "firemen", who are dispatched to crisis venues to report, these days often via satellite telephones. The stock of political editors stands lower than hitherto, having been the subject of both political and academic criticism for becoming too close to government press officers, notably Alastair Campbell. This is about the political associate of Tony Blair for others see Alistair Campbell (disambiguation. The latter are accused of manipulating the political news agenda - "spinning" - by feeding stories, sometimes slanted, to certain favoured newspapers and sympathetic correspondents thereon. Some of the most highly paid journalists are the diary editors and show business reporters, whose contacts are highly valued. Crime correspondents rank lower in the hierarchy along with sports reporters, and are remunerated accordingly.

Certain reporters have achieved legendary status, their adventures still recounted admiringly. They include Bill Deedes, immortalised by Evelyn Waugh, the Anglo-Indian gossip columnist Nigel Demptster, who purported to be an Australian, fellow diarist Jan Reid who claimed to be the grandchild of Queen Victoria, the Daily Express's New York correspondent Brian Vine, known as "El Vino", showbiz interviewer Paul Callan who slept, inter alia, with his little black book containing the private telephone numbers of Cary Grant and the Pope, and profiler Geoff "The Hatchet" Levy. William Francis Deedes Baron Deedes, KBE, MC, PC, DL (1 June 1913 &ndash 17 August 2007 was a British journalist and politician Arthur Evelyn St John Waugh (ˈiːvlɪn ˈwɔː (28 October 1903 &ndash 10 April 1966 was an English Writer, best known for such darkly humorous and Paul Callan may refer to Paul Callan (journalist, British journalist Paul Callan (attorney, American attorney and television legal commentator History See also History of the Papacy Catholics recognize the Pope as a successor to Saint Peter, who Jesus named as the "shepherd" and

Columnists are not necessarily journalists, some being TV personalities like Terry Wogan, retired police chiefs, or politicians who have failed to achieve the highest office. Sir Michael Terence Wogan, KBE DL (born August 3 1938 more commonly known as Terry Wogan, is a veteran Irish Radio and Television Examples of the latter would be the self-confessed "Champagne Socialist" Woodrow Wyatt and the unsuccessful Conservative leadership candidate Michael Portillo. Woodrow Lyle Wyatt Baron Wyatt of Weeford ( 4 July 1918 &ndash 7 December 1997) was a British Labour Party Politician Michael Denzil Xavier Portillo (born 26 May 1953 is a British Journalist, broadcaster, former Conservative Party Politician and Cabinet Each newspaper will also usually have as columnists one perky blonde housewife, and a polemicist tasked to take a contrarian view on the week's events, plus an agony aunt to advise readers on their sexual problems, preferably in explicit detail. Polemics (pəˈlɛmɪks/ /poʊ- is the practice of disputing or controverting religious, philosophical, or political matters An advice column is a column at a Magazine or Newspaper written by an advice columnist (colloquially known as an agony aunt, or agony uncle if

There is a Fleet Street tradition of retaining a corpus of outside experts to pontificate on major issues. Among the most frequently employed are military historians like Corelli Barnett and Nigel West whose speciality is security and intelligence. Correlli Douglas Barnett CBE (born June 28 1927) is an English Military historian, who has also written extensively on the United Kingdom Rupert William Simon Allason (born 8 November, 1951) is a military historian and former Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom Leading academics like the historian Niall Ferguson and the philosopher Roger Scruton are valued for their ability to summarise both sides of an argument and reach a persuasive conclusion compatible with newspaper's standpoint - all within a thousand words. Niall Ferguson (b April 18, 1964 in Glasgow, Scotland) is a British Historian. Roger Vernon Scruton (born 27 February 1944) is an English Conservative Philosopher.

Editorial policy

Unlike the United States where national newspapers do not exist in the European sense, and the liberal or conservative perspective of some major newspapers is not openly declared, Fleet Street has enjoyed the diversity of over a dozen national daily and Sunday newspapers with differing political stances. Indeed these newspapers are quite open about their biases: a reader of The Guardian would be well aware of the liberal sympathies of its editorials, that of the Daily Telegraph of its support for Conservative policies. The Guardian (until 1959 The Manchester Guardian) is a British Newspaper owned by the Guardian Media Group. Other right-leaning papers include the Daily Mail and more recently the Daily Express, whereas The Independent is considered to follow a more politically correct line. The Daily Mail is a British newspaper currently published in a tabloid format The Daily Express is a conservative Middle-market British Tabloid Newspaper. The Independent is a British compact Newspaper published by Tony O'Reilly 's Independent News & Media. Political correctness (adjectivally politically correct; both forms commonly abbreviated to PC) is a term applied to Language, ideas policies or behavior The Daily Mirror aligns itself with the trades unions and Labour Party-supporting working classes. The Daily Mirror, often referred to simply as The Mirror, is a British Tabloid daily Newspaper founded in 1903 The Labour Party is a Political party in the United Kingdom. Founded at the start of the 20th century it has been since the 1920s the principal party of the The positions adopted by the Times and, more surprisingly, the Financial Times have in recent years been centre-left and generally supportive of New Labour. The Times is a daily national Newspaper published in the United Kingdom since 1785 when it was known as The Daily Universal Register. The Financial Times ( FT) is a British international business Newspaper. The Labour Party is a Political party in the United Kingdom. Founded at the start of the 20th century it has been since the 1920s the principal party of the The policy of the Daily Sport was characterised by one commentator as "pro-nipple". The Daily Sport is a Tabloid Newspaper published in the United Kingdom by Sport Newspapers, owned by the pornographer ^[3] The Sunday versions of these papers follow the editorial line of their daily sister.

Fiction and drama about Fleet Street

• A. N. Wilson: My Name is Legion (2003). Andrew Norman Wilson (born 27 October, 1950) is an English writer known for his critical biographies novels and works of popular and cultural history My Name Is Legion is a novel by A N Wilson first published in 2004.
• Amanda Craig: A Vicious Circle (1996) (about a fictitious British newspaper tycoon and the world of publishing in general). Amanda Craig (born 1959 is a British Novelist Craig studied at Bedales School and Cambridge and works as a Journalist. A Vicious Circle (1996 is a novel by Amanda Craig which dissects and satirizes contemporary British Society.
• Michael Wall: Amongst Barbarians (1989) (Similar to Lily d'Abo in My Name Is Legion, a white British working class couple takes money from a tabloid in order to be able to help their son). This article is for the British playwright For the hockey player see Michael Wall (hockey player. Amongst Barbarians is a play ( 1989) by British playwright Michael Wall first performed at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester
• Howard Brenton and David Hare: Pravda (1985) (about a Rupert Murdoch-like character). Howard John Brenton is an English playwright He was born in Portsmouth, Hants on 13 December 1942, son of Donald Henry Brenton and his wife Rose Lilian Sir David Hare (born June 5, 1947) is an English Dramatist and theatre and Film director. Pravda is a play by David Hare and Howard Brenton. It was first produced at the Royal National Theatre in 1985. is gay Bold text' Keith Rupert Murdoch', AC, KCSG (born Melbourne, March 11 1931 usually known as Rupert Murdoch, is an Australian-American
• A. N. Wilson: Scandal (1985) (About how a political scandal is created by the tabloid press). Andrew Norman Wilson (born 27 October, 1950) is an English writer known for his critical biographies novels and works of popular and cultural history Scandal or Priscilla's Kindness is a satirical novel by A N Wilson first published in 1983 about a British Politician
• Michael Frayn: Towards the End of the Morning (1967) (a comic novel about failed and failing journalists in a 1960s newspaper)
• Evelyn Waugh: Scoop (1938) (about a thinly disguised British Newspaper, The Daily Beast, and one of its contributors who is sent to an African country at war called Ishmaelia, based upon the author's experiences in Abyssinia)
• 186 Fleet Street is the fictitious address of Sweeney Todd, a murderous barber whose story has been so widely known that many people believe he, and his accomplice Mrs. Lovett, also of Fleet Street, were real people. Michael Frayn (born 8 September 1933 is an English playwright and novelist Towards The End Of The Morning is a 1967 satirical novel by Michael Frayn about journalists working on a British newspaper during the heyday of Fleet Street Arthur Evelyn St John Waugh (ˈiːvlɪn ˈwɔː (28 October 1903 &ndash 10 April 1966 was an English Writer, best known for such darkly humorous and Scoop is a 1938 novel by English writer Evelyn Waugh, a Satire of sensational journalism and foreign correspondence Sweeney Todd is a semi-fictional character who first appeared as one of the Protagonists of a Penny dreadful serial entitled The String of Pearls Mrs Lovett is a fictional character appearing in many adaptations of the story Sweeney Todd.
• Pete Townshend: "Street in the City" (song)
• The Day The Earth Caught Fire: A 1961 science fiction film, starring Janet Munro and Leo McKern where concurrent Russian and U. Peter Dennis Blandford Townshend (born 19 May 1945 in Chiswick, London) is an English rock Guitarist, Singer, The Day the Earth Caught Fire is a 1961 British Science fiction film Reginald "Leo" McKern AO (16 March 1920 &ndash 23 July 2002 was an Australian actor who appeared in numerous British Television programs movies S. nuclear tests alter the Earth's orbit, sending it spinning towards the Sun. Much of the impending disaster is seen from the perspective of staff at the Fleet Street office of the Daily Express. The Daily Express is a conservative Middle-market British Tabloid Newspaper.
• John Davidson: Fleet Street Eclogues (1893) and A Second Series of Fleet Street Eclogues (1896). John Davidson ( April 11, 1857 – March 23, 1909) Scottish Poet and Playwright, best known for his Ballads
• Charles Dickens: A Tale of Two Cities: (Setting of the Tellson's Bank is on Fleet Street). A Tale of Two Cities (1859 is the second Historical novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the
• The opening sequence of Children of Men is set on Fleet Street. Children of Men is a 2006 dystopian Science fiction Film co-written and directed by Alfonso Cuarón. The protagonist, portrayed by Clive Owen, leaves a café which then explodes in act of terrorism. Clive Owen (born October 3, 1964) is an Academy Award -nominated and Golden Globe - and BAFTA -award winning English Terrorism is the systematic use of terror especially as a means of coercion

Non-fiction

• Fritz Spiegl: Keep Taking the Tabloids. Fritz Spiegl ( 27 January 1926 - 23 March 2003) was born at Zurndorf, Austria, the son of an agricultural merchant and his What the Papers Say and How They Say It (1983).
• A. N. Wilson: London: A Short History (2004). Andrew Norman Wilson (born 27 October, 1950) is an English writer known for his critical biographies novels and works of popular and cultural history
• Alan Watkins: A Short Walk Down Fleet Street. Alan Watkins (born 1933 is a Welsh -born political columnist for the London newspaper The Independent on Sunday who also writes about

See also

• Holborn, with a description of the surrounding area
• History of British newspapers
• List of United Kingdom newspapers
• Prince Henry's Room, a museum located at 17 Fleet Street

External links

• Farewell, Fleet Street. Holborn (ˈhoʊbɚn or /ˈhoʊbɝːn/ "ho bun" is an area of Central London, England During the 17th century, there were many kinds of publications that told both news and rumours This article is a list of Newspapers in the United Kingdom. UK daily newspapers Traditionally newspapers could be split into serious-minded newspapers usually referred Prince Henry's Room is a museum on 17 Fleet Street, London in the United Kingdom. Bill Hagerty, BBC News Online. June 14, 2005. Events 1276 - While taking exile in Fuzhou in southern China, away from the advancing Mongol invaders, the remnants of the Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar.
• Fleet Street's finest. Christopher Hitchens, The Guardian Review. The Guardian (until 1959 The Manchester Guardian) is a British Newspaper owned by the Guardian Media Group. December 3, 2005. Events 1800 - War of the Second Coalition: Battle of Hohenlinden, French Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar.
• Drinking in the Street. SilkTork, RateBeer Article. January 19, 2006
• Fleet Street Band

Notes

1. ^ Financial Times magazine
2. ^ Heart of Fleet Street (St Bride's Church) accessed 5 June 2008
3. ^ Attributed to Brian MacArthur, media correspondent of the Sunday Times. Events 1419 - Hundred Years' War: Rouen surrenders to Henry V of England completing his reconquest of Normandy. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 70 - Titus and his Roman Legions breach the middle wall of Jerusalem in the Siege of Jerusalem 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Such matters are tracked with care, a running nipple count being maintained by competing tabloids.