Sir Bernard Ingham, Margaret Thatcher's long-serving press secretary, dies aged 90 after 'short illness'

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Sir Bernard Ingham, long-serving press secretary for Margaret Thatcher, dies aged 90

Sir Bernard served as Ms Thatcher's chief press secretary from 1979 to 1990 and was knighted as part of her resignation honours.After leaving Downing Street, he wrote his memoirs, Kill The Messenger, and worked as a political pundit, an after-dinner speaker, a cruise lecturer and a newspaper columnist.

His family said "he was a journalist to his bones", starting out aged 16 on his local paper and still filing weekly columns until a few days before he died.

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