News at Ten presenter Sandy Gall has died at home aged 97, his family have said.
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.’
Gall, who recieved a CBE in 1987 and a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George in 2011, died at his home in Kent on Sunday.
Then the country’s most watched programme, Gall presented News at Ten from 1970 to 1991.
Sandy Gall was the face of the News at Ten for 20 years, before retiring in 1992 to carry out charity work
Pictured: Sandy Gall goes to Afghanistan to take prosthenics to his charity in 1996
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
In this time he was regularly paired with enigmatic Reginald Bosanquet
He continued to work as a special reporter before finally retiring in 1992.
Gall then continued to work, setting up Sandy Gall’s Afghanistan Appeal to treat people from the war-ravaged nation. The charity was run by his wife and two of his daughters.
While it initially focussed on helping casualties left injured by war, land mine victims and children in refugee camps it was later broadened to help others with disabilities.
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