Noel Botham: ‘Fleet Street at its most deadly, seductive and crazy’
Noel Botham was laid to rest last week. He was the undisputed master of a school of journalism which would…
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Hartlepool Mail head of news Paul Watson dies aged 50: ‘The newsroom will never be the same again’
Hartlepool Mail’s head of news Paul Watson has died of a heart attack aged 50. A story on the Mail’s…
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Former Sun news editor who transformed the Leicester Mercury dies aged 84
Neville Stack, in my view the brightest newspaperman of his generation, has died aged 84. We have known each other…
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Not a ‘proper journalist?’ Peter Tory still ran rings around many who were
Peter Tory, who died on 9 October aged 73, had a way with words that few other writers could emulate.…
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Fleet Street columnist and ‘debonair raconteur’ Peter Tory has died aged 73
Former columnist for the Daily Express, Daily Star and Daily Mirror Peter Tory died yesterday at the age of 73.…
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The Daily Star’s Brian Woolnough: ‘A brilliant sports writer, a huge character’
The Daily Star’s chief sports writer and popular broadcaster Brian Woolnough has died. The 63-year-old, who died from bowel cancer…
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Chris Underwood: ‘Journalist, broadcaster, raconteur’
Chris Underwood, the former general secretary of the Chartered Institute of Journalists, has died at his home in Walton, Surrey,…
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Son beat ex-BBC journalist dad to death with a hammer
A son beat his retired BBC journalist father to death with a hammer in a "shocking and gruesome" attack at…
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