Overview

• Sandy Gall’s family confirmed he died on Sunday at his home in Kent, praising his life as "generously and courageously lived.
• His journalism career stretched over more than five decades, beginning at the Aberdeen Press and Journal in 1952 and including a ten-year tenure with Reuters.
• Joining ITN in 1963, Gall co-presented News at Ten from 1970 to 1991 and remained a special reporter until his full retirement in 1992.
• As a foreign correspondent he covered landmark 20th-century events, from interviewing Martin Luther King Jr. in 1965 to reporting the fall of Saigon in 1975.
• He founded the Afghanistan Appeal after retiring, running the charity for almost four decades and receiving a CBE and a CMG for his service.