Bloody exciting ain't it? Bloody exciting.

Rupert Murdoch

We had given him an olive branch and he'd broken it in two and beaten us round the head with it.

Tony Dubbins
General Secretary, NGA

Perhaps there was a plot; but I tell you unequivocally that we had no part of it, no knowledge of it.

Eric Hammond
General Secretary. EETPU

The End of the Street
The true story of Rupert Murdoch's coup against the British press.

Linda Melvern’s second book, “The End of the Street”, was published in London, in 1986, (Methuen) and it exposed the secret planning by Rupert Murdoch to destroy the strangle-hold of the British print unions. The book was given prime time television advertising and was the subject of a major serialization in The Times.

The End of the Street tells the inside story of the most historic upheaval in the British press and trade union movement for over a century - the true story of Rupert Murdoch, his coup against the unions and the Fleet Street revolution.

In the course of a single year, the war for Fleet Street was fought and won. With military-style planning and precision, Rupert Murdoch and his lieutenants outmanoeuvred the unions, annihilated practices and traditions that had for decades been the pride of the unions and the bane of the proprietors, and sacked thousands of workers who had believed themselves indispensable and invulnerable.