he first reporter to race to Britain’s worst hotel fire. The
dramatic trial of a priest-turned-IRA commander. Two murders
in one day. These were just some of the stories Colin Walkey
covered as an evening newspaper reporter in Cambridge and Coventry.
In Stories Behind the Headlines Colin Walkey tells how reporters
discovered stories, and some that never got published. Later, working
in PR at Austin Rover, he reveals what really happened behind front
page headlines about strikes at Longbridge, and the failed takeover of
Austin Rover by Ford.
As PR chief at Land Rover for a decade, he tells untold stories
behind the takeovers of Land Rover by British Aerospace and BMW;
and the international Press launches of the Land Rover Discovery, and
new Range Rover in 1994.
Walkey discloses how he created a Land Rover adventure for
journalists to follow the trail of Hannibal and his elephants over the
Alps more than 2,000 years ago. And an arduous expedition to part of
the world that no living person had ever explored…