They were still proofing up until the 1980s in newspapers, at the Telegraph you were still getting a proof of pages in that way. No, when I say a proof of pages you were getting galley proofs but my goodness me, if a journalist were to have touched that galley proofing machine that would have brought the place to a standstill.

I can remember in fact even my days in our local evening paper back in the 1970s during the time when there was a degree of union militancy. I have been down to our printing department and I had been looking for proofs, thumbed through the printer's pile of papers at the time when they were coming out of a union meeting. They went straight back into the union meeting and I'd almost stopped the paper because I'd been seen interfering with their equipment. Oh yes.