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Old 30-06-2025, 05:47 PM #1
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Default Sandy Gall CBE ITV Newsreader sadly Dies aged 97

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






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]

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