Alan Hart obituary

Alan Hart, who has died aged 75, was a trailblazing foreign correspondent who put himself in the middle of the action and brought viewers closer to the reality of human suffering around the world in the formative days of TV news.This style helped to make News at Ten a huge success after ITN launched it in 1967 as British television’s first half-hour news programme.ITV was sceptical about taking this amount of time out of its drama and entertainment schedules but, following two nights of &l