BREAKING: BBC newsreader George Alagiah has died aged 67 after a battle with bowel cancer.
The revered newsreader also contracted coronavirus in the time before his death, and said that living with cancer had equipped him to battle the virus.Speaking to the Sunday Times in 2018, he said he felt‘Had I been screened, I could have been picked up. Had they had screening at 50, like they do in Scotland…
He added on Twitter: ‘My cancer was caught late, very late. Earlier screening is the key. Simply no reason why others should have to go through all the treatment that I’ve had.’ He read politics at Van Mildert College, Durham, and began his career in print journalism before moving to the BBC in 1989 as their Developing World correspondent.
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