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End of an Era...
As I jumped into my car on Sunday night to return from my parents' house, the radio came on (Radio 5 obviously) and almost immediately announced that Richard Whitely had died, in hospital, of pneumonia.
The man was a legend and as popular with students as he was with pensioners. A regular feature of afternoon telly every day for 20 years; he was less a man, more a national institution.
I don't think I could do the guy justice to be fair, so I'll simply point you in the direction of a quite informative (I didn't know Richard Whitely had been the first reporter on the scene after the IRA bombed Brighton) tribute from Andrew McCann.