Press Gazette has just been told the news that former Press Association sports editor Leslie Smith has died aged 97.
Leslie, known as Tiger, was said to have enjoyed an active retirement after leaving PA in 1968 and he continued to take an interest in all sports, teaching bridge until he was 92. He was a former chairman for the Cricket Writers Club. He died on 1 April.
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