Clare McDermott

I remember Clare from his time as sports editor in the early seventies. I was new to Reuters and he was always very kind and a complete gentleman to me as I struggled each year to persuade the Football Pools Association to continue with their desperately needed - in those days - annual subscription for the weekly soccer results. This from a chap I had been told could be quite fierce and I should be careful what I said in messages to him whilst he was in Singapore. I did not know he was a jazz fan, but we had that in common. I find it very sad to see so many of our old colleagues going to that news desk in the sky. ■