Pressing My Luck
Lockdown sailed past when I had the notion of writing my memoir Pressing My Luck about my 44-year career in Fleet Street. Now the 90,000-word book is published by Amazon I am undergoing a crash course in modern media of the genre which has passed me by hitherto.
COLIN MACKENZIE: I still shudder with fear at the memory of being beaten with...
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When I heard that the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are to send their...
Colin Mackenzie – Pressing My Luck – Racing TV
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The arrest of Ronnie Biggs: How the Daily Express reported it 40 years ago
Ronald Biggs was found living under an assumed identity in Rio in February of 1974
The heist...
The racing hack who found Ronnie Biggs and has never stopped hunting for winners
Peter Thomas talks to a press room veteran with a world of good stories to tell
Former Racing...
British journalism’s greatest ever scoops
Following the Daily Telegraph’s historic revelations over MPs’ expenses in 2009 Press Gazette asked its readers to...
Ronnie Biggs obituary: A small-time crook who found fame with Great Train Robbery
Crook: Ronnie Biggs (Image: Getty)
Great Train Robber Ronnie Biggs's place in the annals of crime owed more to...
Tales from the halcyon days of Fleet Street and tracks around the country never fail...
Colin Mackenzie's biggest scoop was tracking the Great Train Robber, Ronnie Biggs, down to Rio de Janeiro Credit: PA
Royals, racing and finding Ronnie Biggs: Colin Mackenzie’s new memoir tells how he landed...
Mackenzie, then a reporter on the Daily Express, had located the man the police had been hunting since he escaped from...
Racing Scoops
I had many racing scoops during my 23 years as a racing correspondent on the Racing Post and the Daily Mail. The...