Sad to learn through colleagues of the death of former BBC newsman, Phil Jones. Plain-speaking, convivial, no management lackey, he was often a 'fireman' reporter - sent to reinforce at home and abroad from the cab-rank that was the Broadcasting House reporters' room. In 1988, he got himself expelled from the BBC office in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
He enjoyed a refreshment - you might track him just 'having a half' in more than one local hostelry at lunchtimes.
After twenty years with the BBC, he pursued a love of history - and published at least two books: "The Siege of Colchester", in 2003, and "Ralegh's Pirate Colony in America", in 2018.
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