In common with many soft-core publications, Mayfair was specifically banned in Ireland in 1968, and remained so as recently as 31 December 2003. [5] Contents containing engine parts. Her blouse is undone, hanging over her shoulders and, as she pants heavily, Sadly, DigitalMagazines.xxx has now closed for good". Paul Raymond Digital Magazine Store. Archived from the original on 6 August 2020. Paul Chaplin, also known as Paul Baxendale-Walker, acquired ownership of the Paul Raymond Publications titles in August 2012. Men's magazines: an A to Z". Magforum. Anthony Quinn. Archived from the original on 15 March 2015 . Retrieved 3 April 2015.

Marina Larsen Described on cover Vol.17, No.12 (December 1982) as '...the most beautiful girl we've ever seen' Occasionally couples, male and female models and sets of two or more girls together (though lesbianism was usually implied rather than made obvious) were featured. Mayfair is a British adult magazine for men. Founded in 1966, it was designed as a response to US magazines such as Playboy and Penthouse, the latter of which had recently launched in the UK. [1] For many years, it claimed the largest distribution of any men's magazine in the UK. It is a softcore magazine, and thus is available in newsagents, although some larger retailers require a modesty bag to hide the cover. The Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has today (Wednesday 22 November) announced a range of tax, benefits and savings measures. We round up the key announcements and what they mean for you. Autumn Statement: State pension confirmed to rise by 8.5% from April 2024 – while some benefits will go up by 6.7%

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Don Lawrence left at the end of 1975 and Mario Capaldi drew the strip from January 1976 to May 1977.

Mayfair Presents – A profile of a model or porn star, looking at how they got into the industry and how (and who!) they've been doing since they did. Many aspects of the magazine changed when, after 24 years as editor, Kenneth Bound agreed to sell the magazine to Paul Raymond Publications. The last issue from Bound/Fisk was Volume 26 Number 1 (January 1990), at which time the magazine had a net paid circulation of 295,646 according to the UK Audit Bureau of Circulations. Paul Raymond Publications era The serious content was gradually dropped in favour of an approach more akin to mainstream magazines like Loaded, while the male interviewees in Quest were dropped in favour of more extreme female-only contributions, including lesbianism. Mayfair was launched by Fisk Publishing Ltd in 1966 with an August cover date. The company was controlled by Brian Fisk. Its first editor was David Campbell, and its first deputy editor was Graham Masterton. Its second editor was Woman's Own veteran Kenneth Bound. As well as nudes, Mayfair featured short stories and serious articles on such "male" interests as classic cars, trains, and military history. In its early years, one regular contributor of fiction and nonfiction was American author William S. Burroughs (who became an associate of Masterton's; Masterton later gave Burroughs a posthumous co-author credit on his novel Rules of Duel).

The December issue of each year was usually double-size, and featured a "review" of the models seen in previous issues, although for many years this was from the previous year, e.g. the review in Volume 16, Number 12 (December 1981) featured the models seen throughout Volume 15 (January to December 1980). In 1982, a separate and nominally annual Best of Mayfair supplement was introduced, reprinting the full photo-sets and other items. This was followed in 1988 by a similar Girls of Summer supplement. This week the commission dramatically escalated that process and launched a statutory inquiry – its most serious level of investigation – into what it said were “serious concerns about … governance and financial management” at both charities. Such investigations were not an indication of wrongdoing, it emphasised; equally, according to commission guidance, they are “not undertaken lightly”. Carrie's adventures have been collected together in several countries under different names. She was 'Sophie' in France, ' Cathy' in Holland and 'Virginia' in Germany. At least one Don Lawrence Carrie strip was drawn which was never published in Mayfair. Both employees and self-employed workers will pay less in National Insurance from next year, Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has announced in today's Autumn Statement.