Former deputy northern editor of the Daily Mail, Tony Hoare, one of
the craftsmen who shaped the Mail we know today, has died suddenly,
aged 65, after a long battle with ill health.

It was a battle he fought with courage, vision and a will to succeed; the same personal strengths he brought to his journalism.

Tony
demanded the highest standards of himself and all those who worked for
him: quality reporting, quality writing, nothing less, at all times.