Splash news agency journalist David Leigh bagged simultaneous fronts for both the Mirror and Daily Mail after he tracked down Anne Darwin, the woman whose husband faked his own death a canoeing accident.

The papers agreed to cooperate after both giving Leigh part of the information he needed to find Darwin in Panama.

Explaining how he got the story, Leigh told Press Gazette: “I knocked on the main door and got nothing at all for ages, about an hour”. Eventually a neighbour let him into the complex.