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Obituary: Terence Blunsum

Terry Blunsum (photo), formerly a Reuters journalist in the Middle East and London, died in hospital on Saturday aged 87.

Blunsum worked for Reuters for a combined 18 years. From 1957 to 1968 he was a correspondent in Aden, Beirut and Cairo for Regional News Service which acted for Reuters in the Middle East, and from 1979 until early retirement in 1988 in London where he was a copy taster on the World Desk and then chief sub-editor on the Country Reports desk. ■