Looking back in the Mirror

It's been 1980s week in the Daily Mirror, in honour of the imminent launch of BBC1's Life on Mars sequel Ashes to Ashes - it's set in the 1980s instead of the 1970s, as if you didn't know. And today the Mirror did the newspaper equivalent of your mum getting the embarrassing childhood photo album out, by carrying pictures of what its reporters looked like back in 1981. Pride of place goes to Brian Reade, above, whose luxurious mane is straight out of the pictures you used to see in the windows of men's barbers' shops, and is a dead ringer for one half of Waddle and Hoddle - probably Hoddle. Ooooh, those dreamboat eyes - Monkey needs a sit down. Each hack has also written a blurb about what they were doing back in '81. Polly Hudson decided she wanted to be a dancing vet, Reade made up his mind to become a singing gorilla. One was a cub reporter at the time, the other six years old. Read on here to find out more.