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Rip Fella, you made reporting of that scrap informative

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-12037973

For those too young to know, Brian made one of those statements that everyone remembered, "I counted them off and I counted them back" as a way round the MOD censorship to say no losses.

A first class international journalist working an environment over run by sewer rats.

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Only 61:(

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I fall into the too young to know :(

Not having a sea based attack capability is what would have cost us the Falklands if the government had their way back then.

Props to those who tell it how it is

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What a shock.
And in the same week the Harriers made their last flight.

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i genrally hate reporters and as a rule are happy to leave then to die ,but him and kate aiddy always had my respect ,she was with us in the **** and didnt b1tch once

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Only 61, very sad. A great reporter with a distinctive and engaging voice.

RIP Brian, and thank you.

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Agreed. One of the few journalists with integrity


and a nice voice

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I seem to remember him being in Berlin, when the wall came down?

A pretty significant event in my wife's families time line

He'll be missed

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Rip :(

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Too young to remember any of his famous reports. But he's apart of some of the major news stories of the 20th century

RIP