BREAKING NEWS Sandy Gall dead at 97: Veteran News at Ten presenter dies at home
The veteran anchor was the face of the show for 20 years, before retiring in 1992 to carry out charity work.
Working at the Aberdeen Press and Journal and Reuters before joining ITN, he covered everything from the Suez Crisis in 1956 and the Lockerbie bombing in 1988.
He worked at the foreign news agency as a correspondent for a decade, with one of his first assignments to cover the assassination of President Kennedy in Dallas, Texas in 1963.
While working on the ground for ITN was one of the few journalists to remain in Vietnam after the fall of Saigon, having watched the first American marines go ashore at Da Nang, filing pictures from inside a helicopter gunship.
In a tribute, his family said: 'His was a great life, generously and courageously lived.'
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