The Times records the passing of Sir Gordon Linacre, sometime chairman of the Yorkshire Post newspaper and Opera North. He was 94.
Sir Gordon was the son of a steelworker and always wanted to be a journalist, joining the Sheffield Independent at the age of 17. He volunteered for the RAF after the outbreak of war and became a Hampden pilot with 83 Sqn, flying over Berlin, Essen, Kiel and Mannheim, and surviving three ditchings in the English Channel after being hit by flak. He finished the war as a squadron leader and was awarded the AFC.