Miles Kington, RIP

Perhaps understandably, given the news of Jeremy Beadle's untimely death, the news of Miles Kington's sudden death after a short illness, seems to have slipped under the radar.

When I first started reading broadsheet newspapers (in about 1986 or 87), the Independent was my paper of choice - trying as I was to avoid the overt political spin of the others - and Miles Kington's column was always my first read.

He was 66.