5 Facts About Daily Express

1. The Daily Express carried an exclusive interview with Adams, whom Hoskins interviewed in a safe house away from other newspapers.

2. In January 2010, the Daily Express was censured by the Advertising Standards Authority over a front-page promotion for "free" fireworks.

3. The Daily Express retains minority interest of one-third plus the right to publish Rupert Bear stories in certain Express publications.

4. The Daily Express switched from broadsheet to tabloid in 1977, and was bought by the construction company Trafalgar House in the same year.

5. In 1938, the publication moved to the Daily Express Express Building, Manchester designed by Owen Williams on the same site in Great Ancoats Street.