Former Observer news editor Jack Crossley dies

Jack Crossley, a former news editor and assistant editor of the Observer has died at 94.

Born in South Carlton, Yorkshire, in 1929, Jack joined the Yorkshire Evening Post as a copy boy at the age of 14 before embarking on a 40-year career in Fleet Street, first as a reporter on the Daily Mail and later as an journalist at the Observer in the early 1980s.

A self-proclaimed “hard news man of the old school”, he later worked for the Glasgow Herald, the Daily Express and the Times . He died early last month at his home by the Thames at Shiplake.