Reference enquiries Birmingham Planet newspaper. I was the launch editor of the paper in September 1963. It was part of Woodrow Wyatt's ambition to set up a chain of full colour newspapers across the country. He was, in fact, the pioneer of web offset printing, which allowed newspapers to print colour on the run - previously they had to be pre-printed and his first newspaper to do this was the Banbury Guardian in March 1962. He later bought the Marlborough Times from which base we launched the Swindon Echo, and later the Wiltshire Echo. We started the Coventry Express in September 1962 and he later acquired the Wallingford News and the Teesside Star. It all went wrong when his wife, Lady Moorea Wyatt, who had been bankrolling him, filed for a divorce and Woodrow had to sell off his papers to pay her the money she had invested with interest. I left him in February, 1967 and he continued with his contract printing business until that also ran into difficulties and folded. During the time we published the Planet we did a lot of coverage of stories about service personnel and I sent reporters and photographers to cover trouble spots in Cyprus and other Med countries - and I know a lot of families sent copies of the paper to their sons serving abroad. Sorry for delay in replying - have just seen the issues raised. Frpm Michael Guy