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Tom Cotterill
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Acting Defence Editor at The Telegraph. Ex-Daily Mail senior and Portsmouth chief reporter. Black belt. Deadly? 📧[email protected]
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Last Front PageAPR 24, 2026Latest appearance
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Hermer’s ‘excessive’ fee for Iraq witch hunt
MoD challenged £450-an-hour rate to investigate ‘war crimes’ by British troops
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Hermer’s ‘excessive’ fee for Iraq witch hunt
MoD challenged £450-an-hour rate to investigate ‘war crimes’ by British troops
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Daily Telegraph•APR 24, 2026•Lead StoryThe story frames the Attorney General's historical legal work critically, focusing on a financial dispute with the Ministry of Defence over his hourly rate. It explicitly links his financial compensation to investigations the paper characterises as an unfounded campaign against British military personnel.
Starmer’s own advisers criticise defence plan
DT
Daily Telegraph•APR 15, 2026Focuses on internal dissent within the Labour party, framing their military strategy as inadequate and dangerous.
Putin mocks Starmer in Channel
Russian warship escorts oil tankers through UK waters in defiance of Prime Minister’s threat
DT
Daily Telegraph•APR 9, 2026•Lead StoryThe paper frames the incident as a direct and humiliating challenge to the UK Prime Minister's authority by a foreign power, using the physical presence of Russian vessels to illustrate perceived geopolitical weakness.
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Paperboy tracks bylines on the front pages of major US and UK broadsheets. This page shows every front-page story attributed to Tom Cotterill in our archive, based on bylines extracted from front-page images by AI. It covers only front-page stories — not the full output of this journalist. Data begins April 2026.