Sandy Gall CBE ITV Newsreader sadly Dies aged 97

[arista]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandy_Gall


https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e6/Sandy_Gall.jpeg



He was a Top newsreader
put in the hours.



[Gall joined Independent Television News
(ITN) in 1963 as a foreign reporter
and troubleshooter, working in
Afghanistan, Africa, China, the Far East,
the Middle East and Vietnam.
And began working as a newsreader
on the News at Ten in 1970.
In 1972, he was arrested in Uganda
on the orders of dictator Idi Amin.
Gall was the presenter of the
Thames Television programme
A Place in Europe from 1975 to 1977.
And of the programme Freeze in 1975,
examining the aspects of freezers
and the foods to store in them.
In January 1976, he and a camera operator
were briefly detained by the police
in Madrid after filming outside a
strike-affected Chrysler car factory
Gall narrated the ITV documentary
Journey's End on the Vietnamese boat people
who had settled at the Thorney Island
camp near Portsmouth in 1980]

[Crimson Dynamo]

I read his obit today in the DT

RIP, one of the main newsreaders of my youth

[Kate!]

RIP Sandy.

Very well loved.

[Redway]

Sad but she lived a long life and I love that for him. May he rest in peace.

[joeysteele]

A long life and it seems a long career, in a time where newsreaders were more than likely far better at the job too.
R.I.P.

[thesheriff443]

Was around when news ment something
Rip

[Alf]

I thought he died years ago.

He was the ITV news at 10 anchor when I was a kid, along with Trevor Macdonald and the brother of the guy who played Poirot.

In the days when you got the Big Ben chimes on your news at 10.