Alastair Yates has died

Some sad news that former BBC World News presenter Alistair Yates has died aged 66:
https://twitter.com/peterdobbie1/status/1022834178746810368?s=21
Alistair also presented for BBC Midlands, Anglia, Grampian, Deutsche Welle and Sky News.

Edited - tweets don’t seem to be embedding properly

Very sad news. Alistair was a great news broadcaster always with an added flair of personality.

It’s been posted here before but feel it’s apt given it was uploaded by the man himself. Here’s Alistair closing down BBC1 in the Midlands for the final time in 1979.

Very sad news indeed.

The consumate professional. Very well presented, articulate and just absolutely brilliant.

Here's the first ever news bulletin from Sky News, which he co-presented with Penny Smith.

Rather sad to read this today.

I always rated him very highly as a news presenter. He had that great combination of being authoritative but with great on-screen warmth too.

https://tvnewsroom.org/news/former-bbc-sky-news-presenter-alastair-yates-dies-at-the-age-of-66-190018/

When I lived in India mid nineties, BBC World was the only English language channel we could get in our particular location.

Alastair was very much part of the family then, alongside Peter Dobbie, Martine Dennis, Donald MacCormack and Philip Hayton.

Alastair always came across as the utmost professional and articulate news reader.

Sad news today.

The consummate professional and a gentleman on social media.

Sad news. Several posts about this in the presenters thread - perhaps they couple be merged?

Wasn’t he a presenter on Deutsche Welle as well?

Yes, he was on DW-TV English for a time, before returning to the BBC.

Ah, I tend to avoid the rota-heavy threads, so hadn’t seen that. Good call.

Just been a short tibute on the STV News from Aberdeen during their news round-up. I had forgotten he was once a newsreader for Grampian.