BBC newsreader and host, Peter Sissons dies at 77

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Former BBC and ITV Newsreader Peter Sissons has died aged 77.  Sissons was the face of shows including the BBC Nine O'Clock News and the Ten O'Clock News for a decade from 1993 until 2003.

He'd previously read the news on both ITV and Channel 4, and he was also well known as a host of Question Time.

A statement from Knight Ayton management said: "We are sad to announce that Peter Sissons, the former presenter on ITN, Channel 4 and the BBC, died peacefully last night in Maidstone Hospital, Kent.

"His wife and three children were with him and wish to pass on their thanks to the hospital staff who were so caring and fought gallantly to save him to the end."