Career

Edwards was editor of Tribune (1951-1954), a feature writer on the Evening Standard (1954-1957), deputy editor of the Sunday Express (1957-1959), managing editor of the Daily Express (1959-1961) then its editor (1961), editor of the Glasgow Evening Citizen (1962-1963), editor of the Daily Express again (1963-1965), editor of the Sunday People (1966-1972) and editor of the Sunday Mirror (1972-1984). He was a director of Mirror Group Newspapers from 1976 to 1988. Edwards published an autobiography in 1988, Goodbye Fleet Street.