he editor of THE DAILY NEWS gossip column has retired. Neville Lytton and his arch-rival Henry Field are competing for the vacancy. When Australian tycoon Wayne Monroe tried to buy the paper, Lytton sets about investigating his past.

Neville Lytton is now the gossip Diary Editor of THE DAILY NEWS. He spends the day with his estranged wife, Catherine, and Laura, his girlfriend, is not amused. Meanwhile, on the work front, Lytton aims to find out if a merchant banker who disapproves of his daughter's relationship with a record producer, has something in his past that he is trying to hide.

Lytton meets his old friend Hamil, who seems to be involved in a shady deal with an MP called Westaway. Soon Lytton gets involved and becomes the victim of blackmail.

Margot Shelley, a fading film star, has just published her autobiography. However, Neville Lytton is more interested in the memoirs of starlet Solveig Lindstrom.

Whilst visiting his wife Catherine, Lytton is told of strange goings-on at the house of Lord Rimmer. He uncovers a plot to create a right-wing political movement and exposes the story in his paper.