Steady Does It

ONE of the victims of the Titanic disaster in 1912 was journalist William Stead, who, according to Wikipedia, "paved the way for the modern tabloid."

Among his campaigns while Editor of the Pall Mall Gazette was one against child prostitution.

The campaign saw him jailed, but led to the age of consent being raised from 13.

Earlier, aged 22, he became Editor of the Darlington-based Northern Echo, which is why the town's central-Wetherspoons is called The William Stead.

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