Sir William Deedes, a Pyramid of British journalism, immortalised
as the recipient of personal communications throughout the Thatcher
years in Private Eye's "Dear Bill" skits has died.

According to the BBCi teletext service:

"His crisp prose was as sparkling,
and as sharp, in his 90s as
it had been when he joined
the now-defunct Morning Post
straight from Harrow in 1931"

In other words: after 76 years of writing he was only as good at it as
he
was when he started? Says a lot for journalism apprenticeships, eh?

G DAEB
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