Allan Reditt, 'Cavalier in company of Roundheads'

Can't quite believe that Allan is gone; he was such a life-force, bon viveur, spinner of tales, renegade, always full of gusto when you bumped into him at the Baron's Bash, which he came to regularly from his Dordogne retreat. Ian Macdowall, the late chief news editor and man of few words, best summed up Allan thus "Allan Reditt, a Cavalier in a company of Roundheads..."  ■