The loaded hour - Peter Rhodes

From its founding in the 1880s, by the Scottish-American millionaire, Andrew Carnegie, as a radical, anti-monarchist organ, to its current position in the forefront of the British regional press, Wolverhampton's "Express & Star" has won a reputation within the industry for hi-tech investment and as a protagonist in a power struggle between trade unions and the microchip. In winning this battle, it has paved the way for a new generation of newspapers.;This is the story of a small-town newspaper steadily overtaking its rivals to become one of the top news organizations in Europe. It is an account of one family fiercely committed to the paper's independence, and a history of the 20th century seen, not through the eyes of the London-based press, but from the provincial aspect of a newspaper which competes with Fleet Street, successfully.;The author has covered assignments for the paper in many parts of the world, and was the UK Press Gazette Regional Feature Writer of the Year in 1990.