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April 28, 2015updated 29 Apr 2015 2:44pm

Richard West, ‘one of the finest foreign correspondents of the 20th century’, dies aged 84

By Samuel Osborne

Richard West, who has died age 84, was described as a “paragon of the independent journalist for his generation” in an obituary by The Guardian.

He started at the Manchester Guardian in the 1950s, as a reporter covering the North West of England and Yorkshire.

After a few years, he moved to London and started working for the Daily Mirror.

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