5 h. ago Farewell to the 'visionary' who gave us Ab Fab, Wallace and Gromit and Colin Firth as Mr Darcy 

Following the death of legendary BBC executive Alan Yentob, the Mirror's Jessica Boulton looks back on the life and career of a daring outsider remembered as a 'cultural visionary'

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6 h. ago Alan Yentob: Tributes paid to BBC legend and 'king of TV' after broadcaster's death aged 78

Tributes have poured in for former TV presenter and BBC executive Alan Yentob

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8 h. ago Broadcaster and former BBC executive Alan Yentob dies aged 78 as tributes pour in

Alan Yentob joined the BBC as a trainee in 1968 and held various executive positions at the corporation

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9 h. ago Alan Yentob dies aged 78: Former BBC executive and TV presenter who served as director of television passes away after illness as Dawn French and Amol Rajan lead tributes

Alan Yentob (pictured) joined the BBC as a trainee in 1968 and held positions as controller of BBC One and BBC Two, director of television, head of music and arts.

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10 h. ago Alan Yentob, one of British culture’s ‘defining figures’, dies aged 78

BBC director-general Tim Davie described him as a ‘towering figure in British broadcasting’

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10 h. ago Alan Yentob dies aged 78: Former BBC executive and TV presenter who served as director of television passes away

Alan Yentob (pictured) joined the BBC as a trainee in 1968 and held positions as controller of BBC One and BBC Two, director of television, head of music and arts.

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10 h. ago Alan Yentob dead: BBC presenter and executive dies after 40 year career at broadcaster

Alan Yentob has died at the age of 78 with tributes pouring in to the BBC presenter and executive

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10 h. ago BREAKING BBC legend Alan Yentob dies aged 78 as tributes paid to 'creative force'

This is a breaking news story and is constantly being updated as the story develops

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10 h. ago BBC legend Alan Yentob dies aged 78 as tributes paid to 'creative force'

This is a breaking news story and is constantly being updated as the story develops

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10 h. ago Former TV presenter and BBC executive Alan Yentob dies aged 78

He spent decades with the broadcaster

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10 h. ago Broadcaster and former BBC executive Alan Yentob dies aged 78

A statement from his family, released by the BBC, said Yentob died on Saturday

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10 h. ago Alan Yentob: Influential BBC executive undone by Kids Company scandal

The former creative director of the BBC was also known for presenting regular arts series Imagine.

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51 h. ago Sebastião Salgado captured the world like no other photographer

The death of the esteemed black-and-white photographer leaves behind a rich library of over 500,000 images showing Earth in all its beauty and darkness‘I photographed the world’: the career of Sebastião Salgado – in picturesIt’s a testament to the epic career of Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado, who died this week at age 81, that this year has already seen exhibitions of hundreds of his photos in Mexico City, France and southern California. Salgado, who in his lifetime produced more than 500,000 images while meticulously documenting every continent on Earth and many of the major geopolitical events since the second world war, will be remembered as one of the world’s most prodigious and relentlessly empathetic chroniclers of the human condition.An economist by training, Salgado only began photographing at age 29 after picking up the camera of his wife, Lélia. He began working as a photojournalist in the 1970s, quickly building an impressive reputation that led him to the pres...

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3 d. ago Russian bodybuilder, 35, suffers gruesome organ failure death after fatal mistake

A top bodybuilder tragically died after throwing away his promising career for injections he would later regret - Russian Nikita Tkachuck passed away aged just 35

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3 d. ago Timothy West's heartbreaking final wish as actor's cause of death announced

Timothy West, who appeared in shows like EastEnders and Brass over the course of his career, died, aged 90, last year and an inquest into his death took place today

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3 d. ago Barry Fantoni dead: BBC star dies at home as tributes pour in

BBC legend Barry Fantoni was a broadcaster, jazz musician, designer, author and cartoonist during his long career before his sad death at 85

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7 d. ago Maxx Justice dead: Former WWE star killed after being knocked off bike by vehicle

Mike Raybeck, who wrestled under the aliases Maxx Justice and Mike Diamond during a career with various wrestling promotions, has died after being knocked off his bike

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7 d. ago Wrestling legend’s daughter says she feels ‘ripped off’ that he died so young

EXCLUSIVE: After a glittering wrestling career, Davey Boy Smith died of a heart attack aged 39, cruelly cutting short the time he had with children Harry and Georgia

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8 d. ago Eurovision's Graham Norton left for dead after BBC star stabbed in horror attack

Graham Norton will once again be presenting the BBC's Eurovision Song Contest coverage

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9 d. ago How Ried, Lask, Wolfsburg and Frankfurt forged fearless Oliver Glasner

The Crystal Palace manager cut his teeth in the Austrian and German Bundesligas, while a health scare helped form his approach to lifeSiegmund Gruber didn’t take long to decide Oliver Glasner was his man. “We were convinced from the moment we met him,” says the chief executive of the Austrian club Lask. “Oliver started his presentation and it was like that scene in Jerry Maguire: ‘You had me at hello.’”It was the summer of 2015 and the future Crystal Palace manager had been persuaded to leave SV Ried, where he had made more than 500 appearances and been named player of the century before taking over as manager the previous year, for their main rivals. What made things worse was that Lask, after going bankrupt under the previous owners and losing their stadium, had just been promoted from the third division, while Ried had finished mid-table in the Austrian Bundesliga. Continue reading...

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