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Ron Sly
Monday 17 January 2011
Ron's hesitant manner and diffident nature concealed a top class news brain and tight writing style which forged an enviable reputation at both Reuters and The Associated Press, where he was also a senior editor for many years. He was a thoroughly decent man who went to endless lengths to help young journalists establish themselves in often unfriendly territory.
To those of us trained in the provinces the name was instantly familiar through the widely-known Sly's News Agency, which fed media organisations throughout the UK with London-dated news items, particularly court cases and inquests. Ron's father Eric, a Quaker, was the proprietor.
When he retired in the mid-1980s, Ron took his devoted wife Morag on a grand tour of the Far East during which he bade farewell to colleagues in several countries. We couldn't help noticing that Ron, for whom a half pint of bitter was taken on only the most special of occasions throughout his career, had developed an entirely new relationship with the amber nectar. He was last seen gambolling down a beach on Bali, long white beard flowing and beer-can in hand. ■
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