Hi, I'm the David Steele who used to work at the Birmingham Planet. I mentioned this to my wife and she found this site. I only worked there for a short while, maybe a year at most. I had a column called Ramsay Steele's Show Page where I covered films and music and such. My heart was never in newspaper writing. I left the Planet as soon as I realized I could go to university despite having left school (Handsworth Grammar) at 17. I went to Fircroft College for a year and then to Hull University, where I got a BA in sociology and much later a PhD. In the 1960s I was a socialist but later changed my views and became a libertarian. You can see my books on Amazon, under the name David Ramsay Steele. The latest is The Mystery of Fascism. I think I remember Gillian but some of the other names are a mystery to me, though I knew a lot of people at the time I have only dim memories of. I have been living in the US since 1980 and currently live in Chicago. I now run a publishing company, Carus Books. I have four children who are all classical musicians. The eldest, Emma, is concertmaster with the Danish Royal Theatre in Copenhagen. I don't think the Planet was ever a daily--that would be Clark Kent's paper. I remember Mike Guy as Editor of the Planet. He was a very good editor and manager, as I recall. He probably remembers me as a pretty unsatisfactory employee. I very well remember John Gavin Hall, who I think used to work at the Planet, but then moved to the Sunday Mercury. I sometimes wonder what became of him; he was capable and intelligent, and a good writer.