1982: After a shaky launch under the editor Bernard Shrimsley, Associated Newspapers decides to go for a rescue relaunch within months. In October, The Daily Mail's legendary editor David English, takes charge. He brings in Stewart Steven as the editor and oversees the addition of a colour supplement. This innovative magazine, called You, proves the most important element in a popular new package.
1994: The Mail on Sunday has been one of the newspaper industry's success stories of the 80s, but by the early 90s, it was starting to look tired. In 1993, a new "review" style supplement called Night & Day is introduced, and You begins its evolution into a supplement targeted more specifically at women. In 1994, Financial Mail is also introduced.
1998: Peter Wright (still the incumbent in 2007) becomes the paper's fourth editor, succeeding Jonathan Holborow, who had replaced Steven in 1992. Holborow's innovations, such as the new supplements, had been a success, and circulation had been comfortably maintained above two million; but the main paper was now perceived (not least by the new Associated editor-in-chief, Paul Dacre) as rather dull.
2003: Now there's upheaval on the management side as the managing director, Mike Ironside, leaves. He is replaced by Stephen Miron - a Mail on Sunday stalwart, who had worked for the paper for ten years before joining The Independent as the commercial director.
2007: As the paper prepares to celebrate its 25th anniversary, it launches a new marketing initiative, which focuses on the paper's first-ever cinema ad. The film features an epic battle of the sexes to promote its main supplements, You and Live, the title that had replaced Night & Day in 2005.
Fast forward... 2032: Miron, who, owing to medical advances, is still managing The Mail's 24/7 news and entertainment platforms, now digital, asks to be released from his contract. It's left to Guy Zitter (living on monkey glands and red wine), to sort the 50th bash.