Bernard Lyall News Today

(Season 4 Episode 2 of 4): A factory owner with a history of questionable business dealings. A House Through Time airs on BBC Four HD at 8:00 PM, Thursday 23 May. A factory owner with a history of questionable business dealings

She lived in Hampstead, north London, before moving to a nearby care home after being diagnosed with advanced Alzheimer’s disease. Bernard Lyall, the elder son of Whitehorn and her late husband, the crime novelist Gavin Lyall, paid tribute to his mother. He said: “She was held in a lot of high esteem, part of the whole vanguard of feminist journalism at that time. She always worked from home. She was very loyal and deeply in love with my father, they were together for over 40 years until he...

‘Wise, clever and kind, Katharine Whitehorn made it easier for all of us who followed her’ Vanessa Thorpe Stylish, stimulating and life-affirming, Katharine Whitehorn, the Observer writer and broadcaster who helped shape modern British journalism, was mourned by readers and former colleagues at the weekend. Born in Hendon, London, in 1928, the columnist, the first woman to be given such a job at this newspaper, had been suffering from Alzheimer’s disease. She moved to a c...