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Sir Simon Day, who has died aged 88, was a highly influential figure in the West of England as, among many other things, Conservative leader of Devon County Council; he also headed the West Country Television consortium which in 1980 bid to replace Westward TV, which had been crippled by boardroom infighting.
The flagship BBC2 current affairs programme - which launched in January 1980 - will also drop its team of dedicated reporters and stop doing its own investigative films.
A Westminster diarist’s decade of walks in the West Country
Sasha Swire shocked the political world with her first book. Her second will only shock those who expect self-awareness or concision
Coverage of the kiss-and-tell book Who Am I? by Danny Cipriani reminds me of that famous George Best story write Jennifer Selway.