Pioneer and passionate believer in free press, who thrived at Daily Mail and covered major events all over the world, has died aged 82
Tributes have been paid to the foreign correspondent Ann Leslie, the formidable British journalist hailed as “the most versatile of them all”, after her death aged 82.
In her 40-year career, Leslie carved out her space as one of the last of the great “firemen” correspondents dispatched by Fleet Street tabloids all over the world, covering historic events from the failed coup against Mikhail Gorbachev, the fall of the Berlin Wall, Nelson Mandela’s long walk to freedom, China’s one-child policy and the conflict in former Yugoslavia.
