Newton Dunn joined '' The Daily Telegraph '' as a diary reporter for the Peterborough column in 1996 , moving to the '' Daily Mirror '' to join its graduate trainee scheme the next year . He spent several years ( 1999 – 2001 ) with the '' Mirror '' as a news reporter , before being made the paper 's defence correspondent after the 9/11 terrorist attacks covering the Afghanistan and Iraq Wars
9/11 terrorist attacks
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Tom Newton Dunn