The craggy looks of Sandy Gall, who has died aged 97, were familiar to television viewers as both a foreign correspondent in the world’s war zones and a newscaster – one of the “faces” of ITV’s News at Ten – who brought calm authority to the stories he presented.
His twice-broken nose was the result of a minicab crash, but it gave the 6ft 1in, lean journalist an appearance of having taken part in some of the battles he reported.
