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The ITN anchor and editor of The Economist has died at the age of 84 First Reaction LAST UPDATED AT 15:12 ON Fri 20 Jul 2012 TRIBUTES have flooded in after former ITN newsreader Alastair Burnet died at the age of 84. He was best-known for presenting the ITN news and fronted the first ever edition of the News at Ten in 1967, he read his final bulletin in 1991. His family said that he died at a nursing home in Kensington after a series of strokes.
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The 59-year-old Wasp Factory author, who has died of cancer, is remembered for his vitality and curiosity First Reaction LAST UPDATED AT 12:54 ON Mon 10 Jun 2013 FELLOW authors have been paying tribute to Scottish writer Iain Banks,... Read Post

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Sir Alastair Burnet, editor of The Economist from 1965 to 1974, died on July 20th 2012, aged 84 FEW editors of The Economist have been famous faces. Alastair Burnet was an exception. Even before he took up his post in 1965, he had g... Read Post