How (not) to edit one page of a national newspaper

For one week in July, the editor of the Daily Mail Diary was on holiday and he left me in charge.

Don’t fuck it up, Lara, I said to myself more than a few times in the run up to the Big Week.

But what did I actually have to do? Every day it was my job, and the job of my team, to fill a page with seven exclusive stories.

More specifically: one main story, …