Peter Tory, a cultured tabloid writer
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Lest old friends and colleagues of Peter Tory failed to see it, let me commend the obituary by Arnie Wilson in Press Gazette.Peter, who died on 9 October aged 73, worked variously on the Daily and Sunday Express, Daily Star and Daily Mirror. Belying the stereotype of the tabloid journalist, he was a cultured man and a witty writer. A former actor, when called on to make a speech he didn't need anyone else to write the script.
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