Sandy Gall, the foreign correspondent and newscaster, who has died aged 97, reported from the world’s trouble spots during a 60-year career first with the Reuters news agency and then with ITN. He was on the ground at Suez in 1956, covered wars in the Middle East and Vietnam, and was jailed by Idi Amin, the Ugandan tyrant. If he had the air of a man who had seen conflict and lived to tell the tale, there was a good reason for it.
When assigned with others to present News at Ten, he did not give up his roving career, but disappeared periodically to report and make documentaries from Afghanistan and elsewhere.
