Gordon Honeycombe: Former ITN newscaster dies, aged 79

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Former broadcaster Gordon Honeycombe, the face of ITN news between 1965 and 1977, has died in Australia aged 79.



Former ITN newscaster Gordon Honeycombe has died aged 79 in Australia, his family has said.

Honeycombe, who was also a playwright and novelist, worked for ITN between 1965 and 1977, and read the Early Evening and Weekend News.

He then went on to concentrate on his writing for television, radio and theatre, before returning to news as chief newsreader at TV-am from 1984 to 1989.

In recent years he had been living in Perth, Western Australia, where he had continued writing and voice-over work.

The news anchor, who was battling leukemia before his death, had recently been in a palliative care unit in Perth.

ITN Chief Executive John Hardie added: “Tonight ITN mourns the passing of one of the UK's most distinguished and revered broadcasters. Gordon Honeycombe, RIP.”